The Indigenous People of Biafra has said that the ongoing trial of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is a full-blown indictment on Nigeria’s judicial system.
IPOB recently shared that what is happening in court has exposed the Federal Government’s abuse of judicial processes.
Speaking via a press statement, the Spokesman for the pro-Biafran group, Emma Powerful, revealed that what transpired at the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, is further proof that the Federal Government is hell bent on blaming Kanu for the 2020 #EndSARS protests.
He stated that it is time for Nigerians to take a closer look at the government’s sham trial of the pro-Biafran leader before Justice James Omotosho, insisting that the entire process has been built on lies and media manipulations.
According to him, the last prosecution witness provided by the government, PW5-EEE, who is supposed to be an intelligence officer, completely collapsed under the weight of cross-examination by Barrister Onyechi Ikpeazu, and it was obvious that the FG presented a witness who was so unprepared with his lies.
“Thursday, June 19, 2025, marks a pivotal moment in a case that has from inception been sustained by a toxic cocktail of deceit, media manipulation, evidentiary fraud, and a calculated campaign to criminalise self-determination.
Following the conclusion of cross-examination, the prosecution led by Chief Awomolo, SAN, has closed its case. In response, the defence team led by the eminent Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN indicated his readiness to file a ‘No-Case Submission’, citing the total failure of the prosecution to establish any shred of evidence linking Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to any offence known to law, much less terrorism.
As a result, Justice Omotosho has adjourned the case to July 18, 2025 for the adoption of final written addresses.
But let it be stated with absolute clarity: what transpired in court yesterday was not merely a defeat for the government—it is a full-blown indictment of the Nigerian state’s reckless abuse of the judicial process.
Despite the courtroom being governed by restrictive reporting rules, it is a matter of public record that the last prosecution witness—PW5-EEE, a supposed intelligence officer—collapsed under the weight of cross-examination by the very excellent Dr Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN. The witness was evasive, contradictory, and pathetically unprepared.
So damning was his performance that even the prosecution’s lead counsel, Awomolo, SAN, had to caution him in open court. Justice Omotosho was visibly exasperated and at several points compelled the witness to answer basic ‘yes or no’ questions he was deliberately evading,” he said.
Emma further noted that claiming Nnamdi Kanu was the brain behind the nationwide protest against police brutality is not just silly, it is morally obscene as well.
Slamming the Nigerian press for ignoring the courtroom mishaps, he disclosed that our journalists are always quick to publish accusations against Kanu, but will immediately go mute when the allegations are rubbished in an open court.
He concluded by saying that history will remember those who are currently ignoring the obvious injustice being meted out against a good citizen.
“The government’s last gasp effort at propping up this collapsed case was a laughable attempt to blame Mazi Nnamdi Kanu for the #EndSARS protests—a grassroots youth-led movement that began in Ughelli, Delta State.
According to PW5-EEE, the nationwide protest against police brutality was incited by Kanu’s broadcasts, and the government now claims—absurdly—that he was its mastermind. This desperate narrative is not just intellectually bankrupt; it is morally obscene.
The assessment report purportedly tying IPOB to security breaches was not even produced in 2020 when these incidents supposedly happened. It was fabricated only this month—June 2025, a staggering admission of falsification that should provoke outrage from every decent human being.
The autopsy reports and coroner’s certificates were unsigned, unverifiable and riddled with forgeries. The unnamed persons who ‘discovered’ these phantom bodies were conveniently absent from the entire prosecution case. This is not law—it is fiction.
We are forced to ask: Why has the Nigerian press continued to ignore these courtroom bombshells? Why are media houses quick to publish every accusation made by the DSS or the prosecution, yet remain mute when those very accusations crumble under scrutiny in open court?
We encourage every Nigerian and members of the international community to file applications for Certified True Copies of the daily proceedings and see for themselves the shocking collapse of the Federal Government’s case.
Kanu is a man of peace. He is not on trial for violence. He is on trial for daring to speak truth to power and for demanding justice for a long-oppressed people. The government’s case against him is not just weak—it is a monument to state-sponsored falsehood.
History will record those who stood by while injustice was clothed in the garments of legality. It will also remember those who rose to expose it,” he added.
