By our reporter
An operative of the Department of State Service (DSS) and witness of the Federal Government (FG) in the terrorism trial of leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, today told the Federal High Court,Abuja, that no weapon of terrorism or violence was found on the IPOB leader when he was arrested in Lagos on October 15, 2015.
That was during the Muhammadu Buhari presidency.
Codenamed PWAAA, the witness who was in the team that arrested Kanu, spoke under cross examination by lawyer to the Biafra agitator, Kanu Agabi, SAN, a former Attorney General of the Federation/Justice Minister.
The operative further told the court that no weapon capable of causing public disturbance was recovered from a lady arrested with Kanu.
Responding to questions by Agabi, the witness informed the court that all the items recovered from Kanu during the arrest were his (Kanu’s) personal properties.
Answering another question, the operative said the recovered items may not be ordinarily offensive,adding, however, that Kanu’s intention may be different.
He said he did not do any analysis of the recovered items as the official directive to him by his superiors who sent him to arrest Kanu, was to nab him and obtain a statement from Kanu.
Nonetheless, the DSS operative said he analyzed Kanu’s cell phone, adding that the report of the analysis was not made available to court because, in his view, it was not vital, was immaterial.
To him, within the decade that the items were impounded, they may have lost their value and become of no use.
Responding further, PWAAA said he did not bring anybody before Kanu to confront him on any issue of terrorism.
On whether he obtained a statement from Kanu in the presence of the latter’s lawyer, the DSS operative admitted that he did not do so.
The court admitted as exhibits the following items recovered from Kanu: one black laptop, two multi-mix transmitters, one mini white Apple iPad with pouch, one grey Apple iPad with pouch, one grey MacBook with pouch, one grey MacBook with case, and one mini drone sound wave speaker.
Also admitted as exhibits are: two mini white speakers, one large computer mouse, one white adaptor, one laptop adaptor, one carton bag with laptop, two 3G modems, two Glo modems,
one Glo Huawei modem, one MTN modem, one Etisalat modem, one flash drive, and one camcorder.
There were also one hand recorder in a black pouch, one MacBook Pro adaptor, one Mic stand, one Phillips headphone, one Radio Sharp mic with cord, one Pro sound mic with cord, one 4G LTE modem, a bunch of cards, 1 Power adaptor for mixer, one Easy Blaze white modem, one Samsung phone,one Black Motorola phone and one Nokia phone.
Found on Kanu are one Black Samsung phone, one Black phone, one D-Link black modem,
one 8GB flash drive, one extension wire adaptor, one pair of shoes, one belt, one pair of ciderwood sneakers and one footwear.
Other items include one black Softech wristwatch, two singlets, one sealed Hermes perfume, one trinket, one Pokham perfume, one Fredrick Peckham wristwatch, one Diesel wristwatch, one Alexander Christy collection wristwatch, one Club wristwatch and 10 items altogether.
There are also three bank MasterCards, copies of documents, one copy of IPOB complimentary card, documents tagged IPOB, one white clipper, one bottle of medicine, one Oman perfume, two mini scented oils, one empty black purse, one Nigerian passport bearing the names Okwu Kanu Nwannekaibeya Nnamdi Ngozichukwu and one British passport bearing the name Okwu Kanu Nwannekaibeya, one black purse, one passport holder, one card holder, one box of Rocarden wristwatch and four bundles of cords.
