…Hail IPOB leader over protest in court
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has again called for political solution over the continued detention of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
OYC specifically appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to toe the steps of his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, in handling Kanu’s matter, but to heed the pleas by eminent personalities and groups for his release.
“It’s therefore, a necessity that the Federal Government led by President Tinubu should discontinue from the executive rascality and impunity of former President Muhammadu Buhari and speedily grant political solution to Nnamdi Kanu case and grant him unconditional release, as viable means to national restoration of peace a d stability in Nigeria,” OYC said in a statement.
In the statement signed by OYC President General, Igboayaka O Igboayaka, OYC extolled Kanu for his audacity to speak out against the refusal of his bail application by Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Federal High Court.
“For educating Justice Nyako and the legal Counsel to the Federal Government, Mr Solomon Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, on the rudiments of law concerning his trial, you will remain our hero,” the statement added.
OYC was reacting to Kanu’s trial at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, “in which Nnamdi Kanu was unjustly denied bail.”
Igboayaka alleged that “the presiding Judge is under the influence of Federal Government.”
According to him, “the facial expressions of Justice Binta Nyako in the court room when Nnamdi Kanu lambasted and educated her and Mr Solomon Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN) on the fundamental roles of law shows that,” they were acting a script.
OYC argued that Kanu would not have fled the country if his house were not raided by security operatives.
“The supreme court was silent on granting bail to Nnamdi Kanu but was very vocal and condemned the operation python dance by the Federal Government in 2017 that claimed the life of over 200 h.armless innocent civilians, and the abduction of Nnamdi Kanu in Kenya and opted that Nnamdi Kanu didn’t jump bail, but his escape from Nigeria was as a result of attack on his life by Nigeria military.”
“It’s unfortunate that Binta Nyako is not making any references on the Judgement of supreme court but believing and declaring that Nnamdi Kanu jumped bail contrary to the legal provision of Supreme court judgement. It’s obvious that Justice Binta Nyako relied on the teleguided script of the Federal Government to decide the bail application of Nnamdi Kanu filed by the lead counsel Barr. Aloy Ejimakor,” Igboayaka stated.”
Saluting Kanu’s courage to protest the action of the court, the OYC helmsman said: “the provision of Section 2, sub section 3(f) of terrorism prevention and provision Act of the Federal Republic of Nigeria implies that attempting to try Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal Government is purely commiting act of terrorism,” It’s crystal clear that Nnamdi Kanu was kidnapped in Kenya by the Federal Government in conspiracy with Kenya Government breaching the international and local law, therefore he can’t be tried in any court of competent jurisdiction in Nigeria.”
He further said: “The way Nnamdi Kanu was abducted, smuggled to Nigeria, there’s no window of law to commence trial, for such trial by Justice Binta Nyako will lead to legal somersault of Nigeria to the diplomatic treaty they signed with Kenya. This is why Justice Binta Nyako has been instructed by President Bola Tinubu to keep delaying Nnamdi Kanu court case, the same delay tactics implored by President Muhammadu Buhari, but this delay is more dangerous to existence of Nigeria than the fear they have about Nnamdi Kanu.
“It’s obvious that Nnamdi Kanu’s abduction in Kenya is similar to abduction of Umaru Dikko in Britain in 5th July 1984, but British government foiled that illegal arrest on 6th July citing the breach of Diplomatic law and stopped the move to bring Alhaji Umaru Dikko back to Nigeria. It’s therefore regrettable and a demonstration illegality and mockery to international law that even British government and Kenyan government convened and abducted Nnamdi Kanu (sic) is because he is an Igbo man. This is the empirical evidence that to be an Igbo man in Nigeria is a very herculean task and a life threatening task, than to use leg to cross Atlantic ocean,” Comrade Igboayaka narrated.
The statement said that the Federal Government should know that Kanu’s court case “has reached its elasticity” adding that “stretching it more may lead Nigeria into Haiti’s present condition.”
