Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu was not brought to court this Monday for his trial at the Federal High Court, Abuja, forcing an adjournment; but the court premises was not without its own drama.
Publisher of SaharaReporters, and leader of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore says he was brutalised and arrested by security operatives. An independent confirmation is being awaited, but a few members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were Monday rounded up by the police on Monday at the federal high court in Abuja where their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was to continue his trial.
They were arrested asking for Kanu’s freedom and singing slogans in support of him.
“I have just been arrested by the Nigerian Police at the Federal High Court. Subjected to beatings by police officers and taken to the Federal Secretariat police station,” Sowore said in a publication by his online newspaper.
It was learnt that the operatives allegedly beat him up and bundled him into a vehicle alongside the cameraman who was livestreaming for him.
Kanu’s trial is stalled as that of Sunday Adeyemo, known as Sunday Igboho in Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Igboho was arraigned in Benin Republic, at the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, last Monday night.
Igboho and his wife were arrested in Benin Republuc as they made a dash fleeing from the Department of State Services (DSS), which agents in July stormed his Ibadan house, killing two of his aides and arresting 12 others.
Government is trying the IPOB leader on 11-count charge, bordering on terrorism, treasonable felony, managing an unlawful society, publication of defamatory matter, illegal possession of firearms and improper importation of goods, among others.