The Federal Government says transmitters for Radio Biafra were found to be installed on MTN masts in Enugu and Anambra states.
This is contained in the government’s case summary of the fresh six counts of treason and other ancillary offences instituted against the founder of Radio Biafra and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and two others, before the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The installation of the transmitters on the telecommunications company’s masts was to ensure wider coverage for the radio and the spread secessionist agenda and campaign for the carving out of a Biafra Republic from Nigeria, the Federal government noted.
Federal government lawyers alleged that the transmitters were smuggled into Nigeria by Kanu and were discovered during a search in Madubugwu’s residence.
They further claim that the 3rd defendant David Nwawuisi, a Field Maintenance Engineer, charged with the responsibility of maintaining MTN masts in Enugu State, was also arrested in the course of the investigation unduly used his position to install the transmitters on MTN mast on the orders of an Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) member, Chidibere Onwudiwe.”
The sixth count read, “That you, David Nwawuisi, at Enugu and Anambra states, between April and May 2015 assisted in the management of an illegal society by doing an act to wit: you permitted one Chidiebere Onwudiwe, now at large, to install Radio Biafra transmitters with knowledge that the said transmitters were property of the Indigenous People of Biafra, an unlawful society, with the intention to propagate its secession intention and that you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 6 of the Criminal Code Act, CAP C38, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.”