UPDATED: Court adjourns Kanu’s trial to Jan 19

The federal high court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the trial of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu to January 19 and 20 2022.

The adjournment came after Kanu’s team of lawyers, staged a walk out over the refusal of operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to allow some members of his legal team, especially his lawyer from the United States of America, Bruce Fein, to enter the courtroom.

Counsel to federal government, Mister Mohamed Abubakar, therefore urged the court to proceed with the trial in the absence of Kanu’s lawyers.

While expressing displeasure over the conduct of Kanu’s lawyers, Justice Binta Nyako declined to dismiss the pending application but adjourned the case till January 19 and 20, 2022, for trial.