Court bars journalists from covering suspected coup plotters’ trial

A Federal High Court sitting successful Abuja connected Monday restrained journalists from covering the bail proceedings of six defendants accused of plotting a coup against President Bola Tinubu’s government.

Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, reportedly ordered reporters to permission the courtroom soon earlier the proceedings judge, Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, took her seat.

The bid was said to person travel from the judge.

At the clip of filing this report, the journalists complied and exited the courtroom.

This is coming aft heightened nationalist involvement successful the proceedings of the six defendants, who were arraigned past Wednesday by the FG implicit an alleged failed coup.

Those lasting proceedings are Mohammed Ibrahim Gana, a retired major-general; Erasmus Victor, a retired navy captain; Ahmed Ibrahim, a constabulary inspector; and Zekeri Umoru, an electrician astatine the Presidential Villa.

Others are Bukar Goni and Abdulkadir Sani, Zaria-based Islamic clerics.

Court bars journalists from covering suspected coup plotters’ trial