A witness has told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) did not issue license to the detained self-acclaimed leader of IPOB to import the radio transmitter he allegedly smuggled into the country to operate Radio Biafra.

The witness also told the court that it was the incitement of the Biafra nation agitator, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, through his Biafra Radio Broadcast that was responsible for the widespread violence in the South eastern part of the country. 

The witness of the federal government in the trial of Kanu on terrorism charges, who gave the revelation  Wednesday, added: “Kanu directed his followers to deal with some targeted persons, including security operatives.”

While testifying further, the witness code named PWDDD, who is an operative of the Department of the State Security (DSS), alleged that between 170 and 200 security agents were killed in the South east. 

Led in evidence by by the federal government lawyer, Adegboyega Awomolo SAN, the witness also attributed the killing of a former presidential aide, Ahmed Gulak, to the alleged order of Kanu to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). 

He also told the court that the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) did not issue a license to the detained self-acclaimed leader of IPOB to import the radio transmitter he allegedly brought the country to operate Radio Biafra.

The witness said the number of security agents killed owing to the activities of members of IPOB and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN) in the South east was between 170 and 200.