The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, granted an application by the federal government to shield identities of witnesses billed to testify against the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu
Trial judge James Omotosho granted the application after federal government’s counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), moved an ex parte motion to the effect.
Moving the motion, Mr Awomolo told the court that the identities of the witnesses needed to be protected for security reasons.
The senior lawyer informed the court that the charges against Kanu bordered on terrorism, hence, the need to protect the witnesses.
He requested that the name of the witnesses be shielded from the public for the general reasons of security.
Kanu Agabi, also a SAN and former Attorney-General of the Federation, who appeared for Kanu, did not object to the application.
The IPOB leader faces treasonable felony and terrorism charges, which stemmed from his separatist agitation for the secession of Nigeria’s five Igbo-dominated South-east states and parts of the neighbouring states as a sovereign Biafra nation.
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