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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to life imprisonment.
He was handed the life sentence on counts 1, 4, 5, and 6 of the charge, while it handed him 20-year jail term on count three and five years on count 7, without the option of fine.
Trial Justice James Omotosho said his decision not to pass death sentence on the defendant was owing to a Biblical injunction that demanded the show of mercy.
He ordered that Kanu should be kept in protective custody, even as a radio transmitter he illegally imported into the country was forfeited to the federal government.
