List of Terrorism Offences Nnamdi Kanu Was Convicted for (Full List)

• The Federal High Court has convicted Nnamdi Kanu on seven counts of terrorism, including incitement.

The Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on all seven terrorism-related charges filed against him by the Federal Government.

Justice James Omotosho delivered the judgment on Thursday, sentencing Kanu to life imprisonment, alongside additional jail terms on other counts.

According to the court, Kanu was found guilty of engaging in terrorism, leading a proscribed organisation, incitement, importing a radio transmitter for subversive broadcasts, issuing threats that led to widespread disruption, and making statements that endangered security operatives.

Below is a summary of all seven counts as captured in the court documents:

Count one:

That you, Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, being the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in London, United Kingdom, did broadcast on Radio Biafra—monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court—preparations made by you and others now at large for states in the South-East and South-South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue States to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into the Republic of Biafra; and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 41(c) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP C77, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

Count two:

That you, Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, on or about April 28, 2015, in London, United Kingdom, did broadcast on Radio Biafra—monitored in Enugu, Enugu State, and other parts of Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court—where you referred to Major General Muhammadu Buhari, GCON, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as a paedophile, a terrorist, an idiot, and an embodiment of evil, knowing same to be false; and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act, CAP C77, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

Count three:

That you, Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, between the months of March and April 2015, imported into Nigeria—and kept in Ubulusiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court—a radio transmitter known as TRAM 50L, concealed in a container of used household items which you declared as such; and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 47(2) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP C45, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

Count four:

That you, Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, in London, United Kingdom, between 2018 and 2021, on Radio Biafra—monitored in Enugu, Enugu State, and the FCT, Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court—professed to be a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a proscribed organisation in Nigeria; and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 16 of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.

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Count five:

That you, Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, on April 22, 2021, in London, United Kingdom, on Radio Biafra—monitored in Enugu, Enugu State, and other parts of Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court—did an act of terrorism in that you incited members and followers of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a proscribed organisation in Nigeria, to look for security personnel and their family members, through a Radio Biafra broadcast on 102.1FM monitored via the IPOB Community Radio; and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 1(2)(h) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act.

Count six:

That you, Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, on May 16, 2021, in London, United Kingdom, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did commit an act in furtherance of terrorism by making a broadcast stating: “In two weeks’ time, what will happen will shake the world. People will die. The whole world will stand still. Mark my word,” and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 1(2)(b) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.

Count seven:

That you, Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, on May 31, 2021, in London, United Kingdom, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did an act in furtherance of terrorism by issuing a deadly threat that anyone who flouted your sit-at-home order should “write his/her will,” as a result of which banks, schools, markets, shopping malls and fuel stations failed to open for business and vehicular movement was grounded; and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 1(2)(b) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.