The dismissed charges, according to Justice Binta Nyako, did not reveal any offence against the defendant.

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was charged with 15 counts, but eight of them were dismissed by a Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday.

The dismissed charges, according to Justice Binta Nyako, did not reveal any offence against the defendant.

The judge ruled that counts 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 14 have not revealed any offence against the prisoner while ruling on the preliminary objection to the charges.

The following are the charges that were dismissed by the Daily Trust:

Count 6: Made broadcasts threatening Nigerian police officers.

Count 7: Made broadcasts inciting members of the public to hunt down and attack Nigerian police officers.

Court 8: Made broadcasts in which he instructed IPOB members to make bombs.

Court 9: Incited members of the public to derail the Anambra governorship election through broadcasts on various dates in furtherance of terrorism against the Nigerian state and with the purpose to destabilize Nigeria’s core political and economic foundations.

Count ten: Incited members of the public to desecrate public property.

Count 11: Threatened public members not to come out on May 31, 2021.

Count 12: Broadcasts were made with the goal of inciting members of the public to stage a violent revolution in support of terrorist acts.

Count 14: Instructed members of the public to sabotage Lagos’ public transportation system, causing the government significant financial loss.

Counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 15 reveal certain claims to which the defendant must respond, according to the judge.

The following are the totals:

Count 1: Made a broadcast to terrify the populace in 2021, threatening that people would die and that the entire world would come to a halt, and so committed an offence under Sec 1(2)(b) of the Terrorism Prevention Act, 2013.

Count 2: Made a broadcast in 2021 to intimidate, issuing a lethal warning that everyone who disobeyed your sit-at-home order should write his or her will, as a result of which banks, schools, markets, shopping malls, and fuel stations in Nigeria’s Eastern states were closed for business.

Count 3: Proclaimed himself a member of the IPOB, a Nigerian banned organization, on several occasions between 2018 and 2021.

Count 4: Made broadcasts in support of an act of terrorism by urging members of the public to hunt down and kill Nigerian security officials on various dates between 2018 and 2021.

Count 5: Made a broadcast between 2018 and 2021 in which he incited members of the public to hunt down and kill the families of Nigerian security personnel.

Count 13: Between 2018 and 2021, you directed members of the public to set fire to public facilities in Lagos, causing the FG to lose a significant amount of money.

Count 15: Between March and April 2015, a radio transmitter known as TRAM 50L was brought into Nigeria concealed in a container of used household products, in violation of Section 47(2)(a) of the criminal code act cap c45 LFN 2004.

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