The 10 Years Terrorism Case Against Nnamdi Kanu With No Single Weapon or Terrorism Plot As Evidence:

The 10 Years Terrorism Case Against Nnamdi Kanu With No Single Weapon or Terrorism Plot As Evidence:

The 10 Years Terrorism Case Against Nnamdi Kanu With No Single Weapon or Terrorism Plot As Evidence:

The Nigerian government has just sentenced Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment for terrorism. They say he is a terrorist. They say he organized violence. They say he is a danger to national security. But let me ask a simple question that every Nigerian should be asking: where is the evidence?

The same government that had the resources, the intelligence network, and the international connections to track Kanu down in Kenya, kidnap him in violation of international law, and bring him back to Nigeria in chains—this same powerful government cannot produce one single gun. Not one bullet. Not one weapon. Not one bomb. Not one gunman arrested in connection with Kanu. Nothing.

Think about this carefully. If Kanu is truly a terrorist leader as they claim, where are the terrorists? If he organized armed groups, where are the arms? If he commanded violence, where are the violent actors they arrested? The Nigerian government wants us to believe that a man is a terrorist mastermind, yet in all the years they have been watching him, investigating him, and persecuting him, they have not found a single piece of physical evidence connecting him to violence.

This is not justice. This is a show trial. This is what happens when a government decides a man is guilty and then tries to find evidence to match the accusation—and when they cannot find the evidence, they simply convict him anyway using a law that does not even exist anymore.

The Resources They Had:

Let us be clear about what the Nigerian government was able to do. They tracked Kanu across international borders. They coordinated with Kenyan authorities to arrest him on foreign soil. They violated international law by extraordinary rendition—something that requires significant diplomatic and intelligence resources. They brought him back to Nigeria secretly. They have held him in DSS custody for years. They have prosecuted him through multiple court appearances. They have arrested his lawyers. They have imprisoned his family members. They have shot at his supporters.

All of this takes money. All of this takes manpower. All of this takes coordination between different security agencies—the DSS, the police, international intelligence services. The Nigerian government clearly has the capacity to mount sophisticated operations when it wants to silence someone.

So why, with all these resources, with all this surveillance, with all this intelligence gathering, have they not produced one gun? Why have they not arrested one single person caught with weapons on behalf of Kanu? Why have they not raided one weapons cache? Why have they not intercepted one shipment of arms? Why have they not found one training camp?

The answer is simple: because these things do not exist. Kanu’s “terrorism” exists only in the accusations of a government desperate to justify its illegal actions.

What Real Terrorism Prosecutions Look Like:

When governments prosecute real terrorists, they have evidence. They show the weapons. They produce the bombs. They arrest the accomplices. They present intercepted communications planning attacks. They show bank records of money used to buy weapons. They bring witnesses who saw training camps. They present forensic evidence from attack sites.

Look at how other countries handle terrorism cases. They bring physical evidence. They show the court what the terrorist had: the explosives, the guns, the ammunition, the bomb-making materials. They arrest the members of the terrorist cell. They show organizational structure. They demonstrate concrete plans to commit violence.

Where is any of this in Kanu’s case? The Nigerian government has shown us nothing but words. They say he made broadcasts. They say he gave speeches. They say he called for Biafra. But speeches are not terrorism. Broadcasting your political views is not terrorism. Calling for self-determination—a right protected under international law—is not terrorism.

If the Nigerian government truly believes Kanu is a terrorist, why have they not shown us the terrorism? Why have they not paraded the weapons on television as they love to do with common criminals? Why have they not displayed the evidence for the world to see?

The Questions They Cannot Answer:

Here are the questions every Nigerian should be asking:

Where are the guns? If Kanu armed people for violence, where are the weapons? The Nigerian police and military parade stolen chickens and motorcycles on television. Surely if they had found guns connected to Kanu, they would have displayed them proudly. Where are they?

Where are the arrested terrorists? If Kanu led a terrorist organization, where are the members of this organization? Who have they arrested? Who have they charged? Who have they convicted? Name one person arrested with weapons acting on Kanu’s orders. Just one.

Where are the training camps? Terrorist organizations have training facilities. They have bases. They have locations where they store weapons and plan operations. If Kanu ran such an organization, where are these places? Has the Nigerian military raided even one location?

Where are the bomb makers? Terrorists make explosives. They have bomb makers, weapons experts, logistics coordinators. If Kanu’s organization exists, who are these people? Where are they?

Where are the intercepted communications? In this age of surveillance, security services monitor phone calls, text messages, emails, social media. If Kanu was planning violence, where are the intercepted messages giving orders to commit attacks? Where are the recorded conversations? Where is the digital evidence?

Where are the financial records? Terrorism costs money. Weapons must be purchased. People must be paid. Money must be moved. If Kanu financed terrorism, where are the bank records? Where are the money transfers? Where is the financial trail?

Where are the victims?** If Kanu’s organization committed terrorist acts, where are the victims of these acts? Which specific attacks did his organization carry out? Which bombings? Which shootings? Which kidnappings? Name them. Give us dates. Give us locations. Give us victim names.

The Nigerian government cannot answer any of these questions because the answers do not exist. They have convicted a man of terrorism without terrorists, violence without victims, and organization without members.

What They Actually Have:

What does the Nigerian government actually have against Kanu? They have his speeches. They have his broadcasts on Radio Biafra. They have his social media posts. They have his words calling for Biafran self-determination. They have his criticism of the Nigerian government. They have his demands for justice for Igbo people.

In other words, they have political speech. They have the exercise of freedom of expression. They have advocacy for a political cause. These things are not terrorism under any legitimate legal system. These things are protected rights under international law.

The Nigerian government wants to call political speech “incitement” and political advocacy “terrorism.” But words alone, without any connection to actual violence, are not crimes. If they were, then every government critic in Nigeria would be in prison. Actually, given how Nigeria operates, perhaps that is exactly what they want.

The Repealed Law:

Here is the final insult: the Nigerian government convicted Kanu under a terrorism law that has been repealed. The law no longer exists. Even Kanu told the court, “My charge sheet does not contain any written law in Nigeria.” They are using a ghost law to convict him of ghost terrorism for which they have ghost evidence.

This is not just injustice. This is mockery. This is the Nigerian government telling us that they do not care about law, they do not care about evidence, and they do not care about truth. They have decided Kanu is guilty, and they will use whatever means necessary—including laws that no longer exist—to punish him.

What This Means:

This case reveals something important about Nigeria: the government does not need evidence to imprison you. It does not need proof to convict you. It does not need to follow its own laws. If the government decides you are an enemy, it will find a way to destroy you, whether through legitimate means or illegitimate ones.

Kanu’s life sentence is not based on what he did. It is based on what he said. It is based on who he is—an Igbo man who dared to speak about Igbo oppression. It is based on what he represents—the refusal to accept permanent marginalization.

The Nigerian government had all the resources in the world to build a case against him. They had years to gather evidence. They had the cooperation of international security services. They had unlimited access to surveillance technology. They had the power to arrest anyone connected to him. Yet with all this power, all these resources, all this time, they produced nothing.

No guns. No bullets. No bombs. No arrested terrorists. No intercepted plans. No training camps. No victims. No evidence.

Just a man whose only weapon was his voice, and a government so afraid of that voice that they had to kidnap him, ignore multiple court orders calling for his release, convict him under a law that does not exist, and sentence him to life in prison.

The Verdict of History:

The Nigerian government may have sentenced Kanu to life imprisonment, but history will sentence them. History will ask: where was the evidence? History will record that they convicted a man of terrorism without showing a single gun. History will note that they called him a terrorist leader but could not name one terrorist he led.

And history will conclude what we already know: this was not a terrorism case. This was political persecution. This was a government punishing a man for speaking truth. This was injustice wearing the costume of justice.

If Nnamdi Kanu is truly a terrorist, show us the evidence. Show us the guns. Show us the terrorists. Show us the victims. Show us the attacks. Show us anything beyond his words.

But they cannot. Because there is nothing to show.

A government that can kidnap a man across international borders but cannot produce one bullet to justify his imprisonment is not fighting terrorism. It is committing it.

Free Nnamdi Kanu. A man convicted without evidence is a man wrongly convicted.

“The absence of evidence is not evidence of guilt. It is evidence of injustice.”