NBC didn’t license Nnamdi Kanu to import radio transmitter – DSS

A Federal Excessive Court in Abuja heard on Wednesday that the Nationwide Broadcasting Charge (NBC) did no longer topic a licence to detained self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to import the radio transmitter he allegedly smuggled into the country to perform Radio Biafra.

An legitimate of the Division of Declare Companies and products (DSS) made this statement at the resumption of his testimony as the fourth prosecution peek within the continuing terrorism trial of Kanu.

The peek, led in evidence by prosecuting lawyer Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), acknowledged the series of security agents killed within the South East owing to the actions of IPOB and its armed hover, the Eastern Security Community (ESN), became between 170 and 200.

He additionally gave vital aspects of how the late broken-down aide to ex-President Gooluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, became killed on Would possibly possibly well well simply 30, 2021, in Owerri, Imo Declare.

The peek acknowledged almost at present after he and members of his personnel recovered the transmitter from a premises in Ubuluisiuzor, Anambra Declare, and introduced it to Abuja, the DSS wrote to the NBC to explore it.

The peek informed the court docket that on November 9, 2015, NBC despatched an engineer to explore the transmitter and put collectively a document.

Awomolo then tendered an licensed accurate reproduction of the provisional overview of the radio transmitter document submitted by the NBC.

The peek became asked to be taught a portion of the document, which he did. He acknowledged the document indicated that the transmitter became a German-made and that it became indeed a radio transmitter made for utilize on the FM frequency.

The peek acknowledged the document additionally stated that this kind of transmitter might perhaps totally be procured and put in after being issued a licence and that the NBC has no longer licensed Radio Biafra to broadcast in Nigeria.

The DSS legitimate added that an investigation by his personnel printed that to perform a radio salvage 22 situation within the country, one must note to a regulator, who will topic a licence after due clearance by connected security companies.

The peek acknowledged, “In this case (Kanu’s case), there became no utility from the defendant; he introduced the transmitter in illegally with out approval.”

He additionally stated that an investigation confirmed the defendant is the owner of the transmitter, which became saved on the premises of 1 Benjamin Madubugu.

The peek acknowledged Kanu later got right here into the country, inspected the transmitter, and made a video to meet members of IPOB who contributed money for the acquisition of the transmitter.

He additionally be taught from some publications of Main edge Newspaper, where it became reported that an arrested commander of ESN confessed to the actions of his neighborhood.

The peek acknowledged the ESN member, who he identified as Uzuoma Benjamin, aka Onye Military, spoke about how he became recruited and the strategy they allegedly bought directives from the defendant, who he acknowledged directed them to waste security agents and build obvious that a deceased member of the neighborhood, Ikonso, became buried with 2,000 human heads.

The peek additionally be taught where the acknowledged Onye Military claimed that he and diverse members of his neighborhood feeble the heads of 10 women to put collectively charms for his or her safety.

He acknowledged investigation printed that Kanu directed the invasion of Owerri detention heart by IPOB members in a single among his broadcast for his followers to assault and waste security operatives of the Fedaral Authorities of Nigeria.

The DSS legitimate acknowledged extra investigation printed that the defendant, in his broadcast, directed that Ikonso must be buried with 2,000 heads, but that thoroughly 30 had been bought.

He acknowledged that when the DSS requested from the police to access Onye Military, the police claimed he had escaped from custody.

He acknowledged for the duration of 1 among DSS’s agents’ raids of ESN members’ hideout, “we seen some ESN members, about seven, with human heads and a few eating human flesh, which they acknowledged became for non secular fortification.

“We couldn't safe Onye Military. The police acknowledged he had escaped from custody.”

He acknowledged there are records in regards to the series of security agents allegedly killed within the South East and that the volume stands between 170 and 200.

The peek who acknowledged two DSS officials, including his driver, had been amongst the victims, acknowledged the lower accurate through all security companies.

On how Gulak died, the peek acknowledged he became amongst the major responders to the scene where the late chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) became killed and his corpse recovered.

He stated that on Would possibly possibly well well simply 30, 2021, there became a full breakdown of legislation and tell, attributable to the stop-at-dwelling tell declared by the defendant, as reported in a single among his announces.

The peek acknowledged later that day, one among his officers informed him that a prominent politician became killed around Obiagwu and that after they got to the assert, they seen what had took space.

He acknowledged the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) within the assert suggested him that Gulak became in a employed cab when he became killed by IPOB members.

The peek acknowledged the driving force suggested him that they had been heading to the airport from Owerri metropolis once they seen a checkpoint mounted by men of the Nigerian Air Force who had been combating of us from accessing the airport but decided to use one more route where they met a checkpoint by IPOB members.

He added that the driving force extra acknowledged the IPOB members ordered the three of them within the automobile to disembark, and demanded to know their tribes.

He acknowledged the driving force suggested him that he launched himself as an Igbo individual and that Gulak additionally claimed to be an Igbo man. Nevertheless while he (the driving force) might perhaps speak the Igbo language once they had been asked to talk in Igbo, Gulak couldn't, following which they asked him to use away his cap and seen a Muslim prayer build on his brow.

The peek acknowledged the driving force added that upon seeing the prayer marked, one among the IPOB members acknowledged “he is one among them,” following which they shot and killed him.

The DSS legitimate, who acknowledged he served in Imo Declare between 2019 and 2023, suggested the court docket that the deceased’s corpse became evacuated from the assert.

Under unsuitable-examination by defence lawyer Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), the peek stated that there shouldn't be any longer a document of the importation of the transmitter allegedly smuggled into the country by Kanu.

He acknowledged he couldn't prefer when the transmitter became introduced into the country but that he became amongst these who identified its plot in Anambra Declare and introduced it to the DSS headquarters in Abuja.

In relation to how they had been in a salvage 22 situation to detect the transmitter, the peek stated that his personnel feeble specialised equipment to analyse a video (exhibiting Kanu inspecting the transmitter) to resolve the placement of the transmitter in Anambra.

He acknowledged he did no longer stumble upon the names Benka Clearing and Forwarding and Chief Isaac Maduka accurate through the investigation. He additionally stated that he became no longer mindful that Benka had cleared the transmitter, as claimed by Ikpeazu.

When asked if he became mindful that Radio Biafra became registered in London and broadcast from there, the peek acknowledged that when Kanu became arrested in Lagos in 2016, he became arrested along with his broadcast equipment.

He stated that he became no longer most trendy when the defendant became arrested in Lagos and that all he knew in regards to the arrest in Lagos became what became relayed to him.

The peek acknowledged the two weapons he acknowledged they stumbled on had been no longer recovered within the container whereby the transmitter became saved, but beneath the mattress of Benjamin Madubugu, who lived on the premises.

He added that Madubugu became later charged with unlawful possession of firearms.

The peek stated that the container became introduced into the country by one Igwe Anyiba, who became later stumbled on to be residing outdoors the country.

The peek acknowledged he became no longer mindful that the Imo Declare Authorities issued a statement to the fabricate that Gulak’s killing became political.

Justice James Omotosho adjourned extra hearing till Thursday for the prosecution to name its fifth peek.