The trial of five loyalists of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on terrorism charges in Abuja was on Tuesday scuttled by the heavy security that trailed the movement of the Biafra nation agitator, Nnamdi Kanu to the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The trial was stalled due to the inability of their lawyers to access the Court following the check points mounted by operatives of the Department of the State Service, DSS, during Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, leader Kanu's trial on similar offences. The five men charged with terrorism offences by the Inspector General of Police, IGP, are Chime Eguma Ezebalike, Prince Lukman Oladele, Kenneth Goodluck Kpasa, Osiga Donald and Ochueja Thankgod.
With agreement of the few lawyers in the courtroom, the trial was shifted to April 16, a day to the resumption of trial of Nnamdi Kanu on similar terrorism charges. Justice Olajuwon thereafter ordered that the five defendants be returned to Kuje prison in Abuja to continue their remand. Among those who made it to the courtroom was a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Simon Lough who represented the IGP.
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