…As US envoy insists country’s safety, security depend on compliance
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–Pix(above, L-R): Ejimakor and #MNK
Bar. Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to IPOB/ Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, has lamented the Nigerian Government’s repeated non-compliance with several courtorders on Nnamdi Kanu, calling on Nigerians and international community to halt the shenanigans before it is too late.
This is even as the former US Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, had also insisted that Nigeria’s safety and security depend on it, saying, “Nigerian government cannot afford any more mishandlings of Nnamdi Kanu.”
–John Campbell
Recounting the vast array of FG’s shenanigans concerning Nnamdi Kanu in a tweet, Monday, Ejimakor lamented: “Disobeying a 2018 decision of a continental tribunal on #MNK was the 1st ‘mishandling’. Extraordinary rendition was the 2nd. Disobeying the UN was the 3rd. Disobeying the judgment of the Court of Appeal will be the 4th. Nigerians & the international community must halt this.”
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja , had, on Thursday ,discharged and acquitted the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu of all charges against him, on account of his trial by the Federal High Court, Abuja having no basis in law, sequel to his extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria.
But later that day, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, insisted in a press statement that Kanu was only discharged and not acquitted.
This is even as the Appeal Court had ruled that before any further trial of Kanu, there must be proof of how genuine the Biafran agitator’s rendition was, relative to proving compliance with fundamental rights under Article 12(4) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, as well as Chapter IV of the Nigerian Constitution.
Legal experts insist that if the FG fails to prove that Kanu’s rendition to Nigeria did not follow due process of law, it (FG) will, automatically, lose jurisdictional and prosecutorial powers, thus bringing an abrupt end to its entire trial of Nnamdi Kanu.
“Thus, before the levying of any new charges can have a toga of legality or chances of conferring prosecutorial jurisdiction, Kanu has to be released first. Anything to the contrary will be nugatory,” emphasized Ejimakor./SHARE THIS
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