BIAFRA: NNAMDI KANU,AND OTHERS DRAG JUDGE TO NATIONAL JUDICIA COUNCIL (NJC)

 The detained leader of the Indigenous People of

Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and two other pro-Biafra

agitators, David Nwawusi and Benjamin Madubugwu, have

dragged judge handling their trial, Justice John Tsoho,

before the National Judicial Council, NJC.

The trio who are answering to a six-count treason charge

before the Federal High Court in Abuja, accused the judge

of "misconduct and manifest bias".

Sequel to the petition dated April 26 and an accompanied

verifying affidavit on oath, dated May 24, the defendants,

on Monday, asked Justice Tsoho to temporarily hands-off

their case.

They filed the motion on a day the Federal Government

maintained that its witnesses were in court and ready to

testify against Kanu and his co-accused persons.

A lawyer from office of the Department of Public

Prosecution, DPP, Mr. M. S. Labaran, while acknowledging

the petition pending before the NJC, however alleged plot

by the defendants to scuttle their trial.

"My lord, our witnesses are available, but the prosecution

was confronted this morning with a fresh motion from the

defendants. Even from the face of the motion, there is a

clear indication that the defendants are out to truncate the

proceedings of this court", Labaran submitted.

He said there was need for the prosecution to react to

some of the issues Kanu and the others raised before the

Council