Biafra agitator Nnamdi Kanu has said some witnesses he lined up for his defence in his terrorism trial will be coming from different parts of the world, including Ethiopia, Kenya and the United States.
Mr Kanu, who has chosen to defend himself without the services of a lawyer, said this at a scheduled hearing before trial judge James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday.
PREMIUM TIMES reported that the leader of the proscribed Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) had, in a motion filed on 21 October, which he personally signed, listed some serving and retired public officers, and other unnamed personalities as his proposed defence witnesses.
He said in the motion that he planned to call 23 witnesses divided into two categories. The first, he described as “ordinary but material witnesses,” while the second, he called “vital and compellable.” He sought to have them summoned under Section 232 of the Evidence Act, 2011.
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