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Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Aloy Ejimakor has asserted that the Nigerian Government knows it cannot convict Kanu with the available evidence.
Ejimakor argued that it is time to end Kanu’s trial, stating that Kanu has been subjected to a trial by ordeal rather than a judicial trial.
He emphasized that the government is aware that convicting Kanu is impossible with the current evidence.
Newsie Events recalled that Kanu was initially arrested in 2015 and granted bail in 2017 but fled to Europe following a military raid on his residence in Abia State.
He was rearrested in Kenya and brought back to Nigeria through extraordinary rendition in 2021.
Since his return, Kanu has faced multiple court hearings in Nigeria and appeals to the United Nations to secure his release.
Despite court rulings in his favor, the Nigerian Government has refused to release him.
In a video released yesterday, Ejimakor recounted Kanu’s ordeal from his first arrest in 2015 to his rearrest in June 2021 in Kenya.
According to Ejimakor: “If Kanu was guilty then why is it taking so long to bring him to trial between 2017 till today which is eight years? It’s not really a judicial trial but trial by ordeal, trial by fire, imprisonment before conviction. They just want to get much jail time from him because they know that with the evidence available, a conviction will be impossible and that was made worse with the extraordinary rendition which I took as a civil violation to a Federal High Court in Nigeria and in October 2022, the court gave a judgment that extraordinary rendition was a violation of his constitutional right and awarded a N500 million as damages.
“The United Nations which is the world court, the Nigerian Court of Appeal, the Federal High Court, and state High Court awarded Kanu one billion naira from where he had gotten four major victories against the Nigerian Government with the latter winning nothing. What more do you need as evidence of what is happening? What is happening is an act of persecution, not prosecution, it’s time to end it and on Kanu’s behalf, I ask all men and women of goodwill to speak up.
“Kanu is a poster boy for all the injustices that a great race, the Igbo people and their cousins in the former Eastern Nigeria subjected to since the founding of Nigeria. These injustices became more public since 2015 they escalated and how you fight back is not through a bullet.”
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