A federal high court in Abuja has dismissed a suit instituted by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra challenging the court’s new practice directions which approved the secret conduct of terrorism trials.
According to the new guidelines issued in April 2022, terrorism proceedings will be conducted in secret, except when the chief judge of the court grants permission for media coverage.
However, Kanu, who is facing treasonable felony charges, said the new guidelines are illegal, unconstitutional and ought to be declared null and void.
John Tsoho, chief judge of the federal high court, and the chief registrar of the court were cited as defendants in the suit.
At today’s proceedings, when the hearing was to commence, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Kanu’s counsel, announced that his client was no longer interested in continuing with the suit.
Ejiofor subsequently applied that the matter be struck out.
