Nigeria: Court Permits Prosecution to Hide Identities of Witnesses Lined Up to Testify Against Nnamdi Kanu

The prosecution opened its case against IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, who faces treasonable felony and terrorism charges over his secessionist agitation for a Biafra Republic.

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, granted an application by the federal government to shield identities of witnesses billed to testify against the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu.

Trial judge James Omotosho granted the application after federal government’s counsel, Adegboyega…