Former lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, has explained why he opposed the continuation of his client’s terrorism trial, saying the Federal Government failed to disclose the foreign locations from which Kanu allegedly made the broadcasts forming the basis of some of the charges.
Ejimakor, who served as Kanu’s lead counsel between February 2024 and March 2025, said the omission was critical because the alleged broadcasts were made between 2018 and 2021, when Kanu was outside Nigeria and was known to have been in either Britain or Kenya.
He made the disclosure in a Facebook post on Friday titled, “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu: Why I opposed trial when I was lead counsel.”
According to him, the charges against Kanu “plainly stated that all the terrorism-related offences were based on broadcasts he allegedly made between 2018 and 2021 when he was not in Nigeria but was known to be in either Britain or Kenya.”
Ejimakor said the Federal Government initially brought the charges under the Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Act 2013, which, according to him, gave the Federal High Court extraterritorial jurisdiction over offences committed outside Nigeria, irrespective of whether such acts were offences in the foreign country where they occurred.
