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A prosecuting witness and an operative of the Department of State Services, DSS, has disclosed that broadcasts made by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, led to the death of former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak and a military couple.
The prosecuting witness disclosed this while testifying before Justice James Omotosho-led Federal High Court in Abuja, as part of the ongoing trial between the Nigerian government and Kanu.
The Nigerian government had arraigned Kanu for charges bordering on terrorism.
The DSS operative who was part of the team that investigated Kanu following petition by the former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, said the broadcast by the IPOB leader also led to the killing of a retired judge, Justice Stanley Nnaji and an intending military couple, Sergeant Audu Lucas, and Private Glory Matthew.
He said the IPOB leader in “one of his broadcasts, ordered his followers to enforce a sit-in at home in all South-Eastern states, and as a result, many people who went out of their houses on that day were killed.”
The DSS operative said the investigation revealed that “Sergeant Lucas and Private Matthew were not only killed by those who were enforcing Kanu’s sit-at-home order, but they were also beheaded.”
He also disclosed that revelations from the investigation showed that “before killing Gulak, those enforcing the sit-at-home directive by Kanu, blamed him (Gulak) for coming out on a day their leader asked people not to go out of their homes.”
He added that, from their investigation, they found that Kanu founded IPOB and ESN, which is the armed wing of IPOB, and that he was the leader of both groups.
“We were also able to establish that he (Kanu) founded Radio Biafra through which he made inciting comments like the killing of police officers and burning of property,” the witness said.
Terrorism: Nnamdi Kanu’s broadcast caused death of Jonathan’s ex-aide, Ahmed Gulak, others
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