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\nKanu
\nBy James
\nKindly share:<\/p>\n
\nKanu
\nBy James
\nKindly share:<\/p>\n
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has urged Igbo people begging President Bola Tinubu to release their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, from detention to desist from doing so.<\/p>\n
The group insists that Kanu is neither a criminal nor committed any offence to warrant people pleading for his release instead of demanding for it<\/p>\n
Emma Powerful, the Media and Publicity Secretary, if the pro-Biafra group said begging for Kanu’s release was unacceptable to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, categorically rejects and condemns the shameful spectacle of Igbo figures, groveling before President Bola Tinubu with pleas and beggarly appeals for our leader\u2019s \u2018pardon\u2019 or \u2018release,\u201d, a statement by the group read.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuch cowardly submissions, as seen in one Idimogu\u2019s recent public groveling, where he begged Tinubu to free Kanu as a political favor to boost APC\u2019s 2027 fortunes and revive the South-East economy, reek of self-serving opportunism and betrayal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey insult the intelligence of the Biafran people, undermine the rule of law, and perpetuate the false narrative that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has committed any crime warranting mercy from a regime built on impunity.”<\/p>\n
IPOB stated that Kanu was a prisoner of conscience, who was abducted from Kenya, not a criminal.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet us be unequivocally clear: Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not a criminal in need of pardon. He is a prisoner of conscience, unlawfully abducted from Kenya on June 27, 2021, in blatant violation of Kenyan sovereignty, Nigeria\u2019s Extradition Act 2004, and international treaties, including the African Charter on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights (ACHPR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),” the statement further said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth Kenyan and Nigerian courts have affirmed this criminal abduction: the Kenyan High Court ruled it illegal, and Nigeria\u2019s Court of Appeal, in its subsisting judgment of October 13, 2022, discharged Mazi Nnamdi Kanu outright, declaring no Nigerian court has jurisdiction to try him due to the jurisdictional nullity caused by his rendition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis appellate discharge, grounded in fundamental defects, stands as a final acquittal under Nigerian jurisprudence irrevocable unless explicitly stated \u201cwithout prejudice,\u201d which it was not (Suleman v. FRN, 2018; Mohammed v. State, 2017).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s December 15, 2023, ruling, remitting the case for trial, is a per incuriam travesty, a nullity that cannot override the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).<\/p>\n
\u201cSection 36(9) enshrines ironclad protection against double jeopardy: no person discharged by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be tried again for the same offense. The highest law in Nigeria is the Constitution, not the Supreme Court, and any judgment flouting constitutional safeguards is dead on arrival.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurthermore, the charges rely on repealed laws (Terrorism Prevention Act 2011\/2013), extinguished under Section 6(3) of the Interpretation Act 2004, with no savings clause to revive them (A.G. Federation v. A.G. Abia State, 2002; Okeke v. State, 2019).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe de novo trial before Justice Omotosho, commencing March 29, 2025, where Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was forced to plead not guilty anew, is an absolute nullity\u2014void ab initio for lacking jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
“Begging Tinubu, therefore, reinforces dictatorship and autocracy, portraying Nigeria as a lawless fiefdom where executive whims trump judicial finality. It signals weakness to our oppressors, implying Kanu is guilty when the law has exonerated him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIPOB warns all well-meaning individuals, Igbo leaders, and the public: Cease this degrading pleading immediately. It does not bode well for the rule of law; it smacks of complicity in state-sponsored terrorism and judicial banditry.”<\/p>\n
The group placed a demand for the immediate release of Kanu without conditions lites.<\/p>\n
\u201cHenceforth, demand for the immediate and unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. He has been discharged and acquitted; no court, not even the Supreme Court, can subvert this without offending the Constitution and inviting anarchy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe call on all Biafrans, freedom-loving Nigerians, and the international community to amplify this demand: Obey the law, respect the Constitution, and free Kanu now! Failure to do so exposes the Tinubu regime\u2019s contempt for justice and accelerates the inevitable collapse of this contrived contraption.<\/p>\n
\u201cIPOB will not fold its arms while our leader is intimidated into an unjust trial. We urge mass mobilization, including protests, legal actions, and global advocacy, to enforce the Court of Appeal\u2019s verdict. Those who continue begging will be seen as enablers of oppression; history will judge you harshly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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