Nnamdi Kanu Found Guilty Of All Seven-count Charges – Three Carry Death Sentences

By Gideon Njoku

Leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been convicted on all seven count charges preferred against him by the Federal Government.

The charges mainly border on terrorism.

Counts 1, 2, 4, carry death sentences.

While rounding-off the judgement which lasted for over four hours, the Honourable Justice James Omotosho, who had earlier ordered Kanu out of the Court because of what was seen as his unruly behaviour inside the Court, called Kanu a terrorist.

The Court has risen to reconvene in about two hours time for sentencing.

The lead prosecuting Lawyer, has asked for the death sentence.

However, Kanu’s representative in the House of Representatives, Honourable Obinna Aguocha, who addressed the Court, pleaded for mercy on his behalf, in the sentencing.

The Judge had called on Kanu’s Special Counsel, Alloy Ejimakor to speak, but Ejimakor, who was not robed, since he and others had been stood down by Kanu, passed it on to Aguocha.

Opinion is that Kanu would get the death sentence. It would then remain for him to either appeal, or for the Federal Government to forgive him later. That is where the South-east Governors and other serious stakeholders in the region would, and could come in.