Justice John Tsoho,  of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered that Nnamdi Kanu be remanded in Kuje  prison rather than in their custody  pending his trial for treason. 
The judge, gave the  order after listening to Mohammed Diri, counsel to the Department of State Services (DSS),  and Chuks Muoma (SAN), counsel to Kanu. Muoma had argued that the accused person be 
remanded in prison custody away from the cell of the DSS.  He said that his client had been kept incommunicado in the custody of  the DSS for three months.  

 He therefore asked the court to send the accused person to prison so that his family could have access to him. 

 Diri, however, prayed the court to keep Kanu in the custody  of the DSS for security reasons.

 But the judge ruled that the defendant be kept in the custody of the Nigeria Prison Service, Kuje. It will be recalled that  on December 23, 2015, Kanu  refused to take his plea before Justice Ahmed Mohammed, of the Federal High Court, Abuja, citing lack of confidence in the court. This was  after Justice Adeniyi Ademola, also  of the Federal High Court, Abuja,  ordered the DSS to release him unconditionally, and after a chief magistrate court discharged 
and acquitted him of charges of criminal intimidation and ownership of unlawful society.

 Meanwhile at today's arraignment,  Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was today  charged with treason.

 The charges against him and two others stated:  “That you, Nnamdi Kanu and other unknown per sons, now at large, at London, United Kingdom, 
between 2014 and September, 2015 with intention to levy war against Nigeria in order to force the President to change his  measures of being the President of the Federation, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation  as defined in Section 3 of the Constitution of the Federal Re- public of Nigeria 1999 (as amended)  by doing an act to wit: Broadcast on Radio Biafra your preparations for the states in the South-East  geo-political zone, South-South geo-political zone, the Igala Community of Kogi State and the Idoma/Igede Community  of Benue State to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria and form themselves into a  Republic of Biafra, and thereby committed an offence punish- able under Section 41(C) of  the Criminal Code Act, CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.