IPOB's counsel orders the UN to carry Nigeria's listening to
Particular Prosecutor of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the detained chief of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Aloy Ejimakor, has said that the Supreme Courtroom has lastly dominated that his consumer was by no means granted bail, and that the bail granted to him by the decrease courtroom was granted, due to this fact shouldn’t have been granted. withdrawn.
Ejimakor burdened that Kanu wouldn’t forgo bail, recalling in a press release that it was on account of the army invasion of his household residence in Umuahia, Abia State in September 2017, which pressured him into exile, stopping him from attending his trial might attend. on the following scheduled date.
The lawyer said that the primary judicial affirmation that Kanu had not been granted bail “got here in January 2022, when the Excessive Courtroom of Abia State, in a landmark judgment, declared that the mentioned army invasion was a blatant violation of Kanu’s constitutional rights, and accordingly awarded him N1 billion in damages and public apology.”
He added that it was lastly, on December 15, 2023, that the second and remaining judicial affirmation put an finish to this bail leaping saga, when the Supreme Courtroom unequivocally dominated that Kanu had by no means jumped bail.
Referring to some elements of the judgment as delivered by the Supreme Courtroom, Ejimakor said: “The respondent (Kanu) was on bail and due to this fact in custody when his home was illegally invaded by closely armed army officers of the appellant (FG), inflicting him to flee his residence and nation to safeguard his life.
“Confronted with such an assault, he was liable for fleeing to safeguard his life and bodily well-being. That's what any regular and affordable particular person would do beneath that circumstance to protect their life.
“It’s distressing that the implications of that assault had been supposed or foreseeable. This isn’t disputed. Appellant's officers knew that their invasion of defendant's residence induced him to run away to safe his life and bodily well-being.
“Nonetheless, through the proceedings within the pending legal case in opposition to him, they requested that his bail be revoked, {that a} warrant be issued in opposition to him and that his sureties forfeit their respective bails and that his trial be ordered in his absence as a result of he had exceeded bail. and never in courtroom to bear his trial.
“Defendant didn’t intentionally or knowingly fail to seem on the listening to. They knew that their unlawful actions made it inconceivable for the suspect to be current in courtroom for his trial. “
“It was due to this fact flawed and malicious of the appellant, who had induced the respondent to flee from his residence and nation to safe his life and induced his unavoidable absence from the courtroom, to tell and thereby mislead the courtroom that the defendant had suspended his bail.”
In a associated growth, Kanu's Worldwide Counsel, Mr. Bruce Fein, has urged United Nations Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres and three others to “provoke formal investigations into Nigeria's suitability to take part of the household of civilized nations looking for a rules-based worldwide order.”
The three others, he mentioned, are the president of the European Fee in Brussels, Belgium, Ursula Gertrude von der Leyen; King Charles III of the Commonwealth of Nations, United Kingdom and Chairman of the African Union
He advised them: “I’m writing as a world counsel for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. He’s presently arbitrarily detained in a Nigerian dungeon in precarious well being and denied entry to mandatory medical care.”
In his letter dated January 27, 2024, titled “Re: Nigeria's inveterate lawlessness, suspension or expulsion from worldwide our bodies,” Fein alleged that credible proof within the public area of Nigeria's disregard for the rule of regulation precludes her eligibility.
Fein recalled that on July 20, 2022, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared that Mr. Kanu's detention violated 16 worldwide human rights treaties of jus cogens and due to this fact ordered his rapid and unconditional launch and reparations.
“Nigeria has been mocking and disrespecting the duty drive order for over eighteen months,” he alleged.
He said that on October 1, 2020, 5 United Nations human rights specialists wrote a letter to then President Muhammadu Buhari protesting the abstract itemizing of IPOB as a terrorist group.
“President Buhari was known as on to rethink the record, partly as a result of peaceable advocacy for an unbiased Biafra is protected by worldwide regulation. President Buhari ignored the letter.
“On November 10, 1995, Nigeria hanged Nobel Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa, regardless of pleas from a number of international governments and human rights organizations.”
Instructing his addressees to wield the massive stick in opposition to Nigeria, Fein recalled that the UN suspended South Africa in 1974 over its apartheid insurance policies.
“The African Union suspended Sudan in 2021 on account of a army coup. The Commonwealth suspended Nigeria in 1995 over the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa,” he said.
