…As 4 more SANs join legal team
A witness of the federal government Friday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that no weapon of terrorism or violence was recovered from the Biafra nation agitator, Nnamdi Kanu during his arrest on October 15, 2015 in Lagos.
The witness, who is an operative of the Department of the State Service (DSS) and code named PWAAA, also informed the court that no arms of public disturbance were recovered from the lady arrested along with Kanu.
During cross examination conducted by Kanu’s lawyer, Kanu Agabi SAN, before Justice James Omotosho, the witness said that all the items recovered in the hotel room were personal properties of the Biafra nation agitator.
He, however, said that the recovered items may not be ordinarily offensive, but the intention of the defendant may be something else.
He also told the court that he did not analyse any of the items because his mandate was to effect arrest and obtain a statement from Kanu.
Answering a question, the DSS operative admitted analyzing the cell phone of the defendant, but the report of the analysis was not made available to the court because it is immaterial.
In the 10 years that the items were impounded, he admitted the properties may have lost their values and became of no use.
He further explained that he did not bring anybody before Kanu to confront him on any issue of terrorism.
He admitted not knowing any person put on trial by the federal government on account of agitation from the Biafra nation actualisation.
According to him, the one he knew is Simon Ekpa, who he said would soon be brought to the country for trial for supporting Kanu in the agitation.
At the Friday trial before Justice James Omotosho, four senior advocates Audu Nunghe, Joseph Akubo, Emeka Etiaba, and Onyechi Ikpeazu joined the defence team.
Meanwhile, Justice Omotosho has fixed May 6th, 7th and 8th for continuation of cross examination