Ahead Of Thursday’s Judgment, Kanu Accuses DSS Witnesses Of Giving ‘False Evidence On Oath’

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a direct criminal complaint against two witnesses of the Department of State Services (DSS) ahead of judgment in his terrorism case, scheduled for Thursday.

In a complaint filed before a chief magistrate’s court in Abuja, Kanu, through his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, alleged that the witnesses, identified as TAA (PW1) and BBB (PW2), “willfully gave false evidence on oath.”

The complaint, brought pursuant to Sections 156, 158(1), 159(1), and 160 of the Penal Code, Section 88 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, and Sections 34 and 36 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), asserts that:

“On diverse dates between May and July 2025, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, during the trial-within-trial in the case of Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Nnamdi Kanu (FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015), Mr. TAA and Mr. BBB, being prosecution witnesses, willfully gave false evidence on oath, knowing it to be false and material to the admissibility of the 2015 and 2021 statements, thereby committing perjury.”

Kanu claimed that TAA’s testimony denying knowledge of Mr Brown Ekwoaba, the DSS Assistant Director (Investigations), was false.

He cited affidavits and public records confirming Ekwoaba’s supervision of Kanu’s detention and interviews between October 2015 and January 2016.

Similarly, Kanu asserted that BBB falsely testified that he had only met Kanu in court, contradicting earlier testimony that he led Kanu’s video interview on July 17, 2021, at DSS headquarters.

He alleged that both witnesses who testified behind masks and screens by court order, yet gave materially false evidence to conceal the proper chain of custody of the 2015 and 2021 statements.
Kanu, who has been in DSS custody since 2015, is facing terrorism-related charges.

LEADERSHIP recalls that he disengaged his legal team, opting to defend himself, insisting there is no case against him, and describing his detention as illegal.

Despite the judge’s advice to seek legal counsel and enter a defence, Kanu refused.

Consequently, Justice James Omotosho scheduled judgment for 20 November.

Kanu has also filed a motion seeking to halt the Federal High Court’s judgment.