Posted on: 08:43 Tue, 09 Feb 2016



A mild drama took place within the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja this morning, as the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,
Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, whose trial is billed to commence today, refused to remove
his handcuffs.

It took the intervention of his lead counsel, Chief Chuks Muoma, SAN, to
persuade Kanu to step-down from the prison van that brought him to court for
trial.

Though he eventually succumbed to persuasion by his lawyer to alight from the
prison van, however, Kanu, swore that he would not allow anybody to remove
the handcuffs which he wore into the courtroom.

Meantime, trial Justice John Tsoho who is scheduled to hear the testimony of
witnesses the federal government will bring before the court today to testify
against Kanu, has stood down the matter.