Nigeria’s State Security Service, DSS, has allegedly failed to produce Radio Biafran leader Nnamdi Kanu in court for a hearing on Wednesday, November 18.
Kanu, is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and notorious director of the London-based radio station Radio Biafra, who was apprehended in Lagos in October and his arrest has prompted mass protest across the Eastern Region.
According to his lawyer, he was still being held by the DSS.
A statement from Biafra 24, a live online radio station claimed: “Nigeria’s DSS has failed to produce Nnamdi Kanu, who is supposed to appear in court [Abuja’s Magistrates Court] yesterday. No reason whatsoever was given.”
Kanu’s whereabouts remain unknown despite Nigeria security forces claiming he is on bail
Prosecution counsel Moses Idakwo informed the court that Kanu was not in court.
Cable an online newspaper, reported that Kanu was standing trial after being charged with criminal conspiracy, intimidation and belonging to unlawful society. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Magistrate Court has ordered the DSS to produce Kanu before it on 23 November.
Pro-Biafran agitatorsare calling for the independence of territories that constituted the Biafran Republic established in 1967 and re-annexed to Nigeria in 1970, following a civil war that claimed between one and three million lives.
Protests have intensified in the past few days since Kanu was apprehended.
They have accused the police of violence. However, police have denied these claims, arguing that people advocating for Biafra hold violent protests disrupting peace.
Amnesty International said that there is “credible evidence that pro-Biafran separatists in Nigeria are targeted by police.
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