The legal team of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Tuesday said it will prove at the end of the resumed trial that the Biafra agitator committed no offense known to the law.
Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, disclosed this while addressing journalists after the court session.
He disclosed that the Nigerian government succeed in commencing the trial it has always wanted.
Kanu is facing charges bordering on terrorism before Justice James Omotosho-led Federal High Court.
During the resumed trial, the prosecution presented its first witness who testified from behind a screen.
At the end of proceedings, the judge adjourned the trial till May 2nd for continuation.
However, Ejimakor disclosed that the prosecution witness will be cross-examined during the next adjourned date.
According to Ejimakor: “Today’s hearing has been concluded. The prosecution presented its first witness who was not identified by name but by initials only and he testified from behind a screen, as was approved by the judge. On 2nd May, we shall cross-examine him and test his veracity
“Finally, the government is getting its so-called trial it has desired of late, it didn’t desire this trial for the past 10 years but for the past seven months, the government has been intent on having a trial.
“Trial commenced today. The prosecution witness was examined by direct examination by the prosecutor and he made an application.
“It made an application for the witness to be marked or to be screened away from the eye view of the general public.
“The only person that could behold him from his own part of the aisle was Kanu, he has given his direct examination and the matter was adjourned to May 2 for continuation of trial.
“So, what is going to happen on May 2nd is very specific and simple. We are going to subject that witness to cross-examination, we are going to ask him to explain certain things.
“His own answers to questions posed to him today will not be taken as true until we have finished cross-examining him on May 2nd.
“We are very hopeful that in the end our victory is assured and we shall be able to show through this trial that Kanu didn’t commit any offense known to law.”;
