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Breaking: Drama as judge orders security to take Nnamdi Kanu out of courtroom

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Breaking: Drama as judge orders security to take Nnamdi Kanu out of courtroom

Trial Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja Kanu ordered security agents to bundle the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, out of the courtroom, after he insisted that judgment would not be delivered in the terrorism charge the Federal Government entered against him.

Following Kanu’s repeated shouts that the trial judge must show him where it was written in the law that he was not entitled to file a written address in the case against him, the court temporarily halted its proceeding to enable security operatives to take him out of the room.

Justice Omotosho stood down the matter after he delivered a ruling that dismissed fresh motions the IPOB leader filed after the case was slated for judgment.

According to the court, the motions contained issues that were previously raised by the defendant.

It dismissed Kanu’s request for the case to be referred to the Court of Appeal, stressing that section 306 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, forbade the stay of proceedings in a criminal matter.

The court equally refused the defendant’s request for bail, saying it would, in the course of the judgement, consider some of the issues Kanu raised in his motions.

As the judge attempted to commence the reading of the judgment, Kanu stood his ground, shouting that the court had no jurisdiction to decide the case without admitting his written address.

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