WATCH THE VIDEO HERE The Federal High Court in Abuja has admitted three videos, including one where the leader of the proscribed indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was seen inspecting a radio transmitter allegedly smuggled into the country. This was one of the highlights at the resumed hearing of the alleged terrorism trial where Kanu alleged that he made statements under duress sometime in October and November 2015. The Radio Biafra transmitter known as “Tram 50L” was kept at Ubuluisiuzor, in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, where he carried out an inspection. The third prosecution witness, an operative of the Department of State Services, known as Mr CCC, during the trial-within-trial, dismissed claims that the DSS used threats of solitary confinement to extract statements from the defendant. The defendant had claimed that one Mr Brown, a DSS operative, made the threat about solitary confinement in the ‘dungeon.’ But NAIJAONPOINT clarified that the names of the officers who took part in the interview are James, Ibrahim, and Collins, with no Mr Brown among them. The third prosecution witness stated that Kanu was given presidential treatment and expressed shock at the allegations of using any form of force to get him to make certain statements, including calling former presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari unprintable names, and also alleging that Senator Rochas Okorocha ‘Islamised’ his people. These were statements he allegedly made when he granted an interview with a US-based online medium known as Sahara Reporters. It was during the same interview that, according to NAIJAONPOINT , Kanu used the term ‘zoo’ to refer to Nigeria. The contentious items were three written statements made at the DSS headquarters by Kanu on October 23, 24 and, November 4, 2015. The statements along with the video recording of his oral statements of October 21 and 23, 2015 were also tendered.
Alleged terrorism: Court admits clip of Kanu’s Radio Biafra transmitter
