By Seun Opejobi Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has described th...
By Seun Opejobi
Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of
the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has described the Biafra agitator as a
victim of false imprisonment by the state.
Ejimakor made the remark while stressing that Kanu was not
under any charge before any court.
He noted that Kanu’s fate does not lie with the appeal
before the Supreme court alone.
In a statement he signed, Ejimakor reiterated that Kanu’s
release was not an act of mercy.
The statement reads partly: “To be sure, Nnamdi Kanu’s fate
does not lie in this appeal alone because the appeal is but one of the several
cases that were triggered – municipally and internationally – by the
extraordinary rendition, and all the cases are independent, of equal stature
and aimed at securing Nnamdi Kanu’s release.
“Therefore, the different moments in time when two of these
several cases, in particular – the one initiated at the Federal High Court and
the one initiated at the United Nations (both of which have concurrent
jurisdiction over the rendition), were determined in favor of Nnamdi Kanu, the
narrative that freeing him lies exclusively in the hands of the Supreme Court
is fundamentally false. It is also malicious, prejudicial and profoundly
injurious to Nnamdi Kanu’s legal interest, especially as it offers the
authorities the umbrage and easy political cover to persist in the illegal
detention of Nnamdi Kanu.
“Finally, it needs to be emphasized that for the obvious
reason that Nnamdi Kanu is neither currently facing any trial, nor does he have
any charges standing against him, his detention is – in reality – an
imprisonment without conviction. In plain terms, he is a victim of false
imprisonment by the State. A rough and tough imprisonment that is more
horrendous when the locale is not a prison or a correctional institution but a
hideous DSS cell, which is no different from a dank police cell or even worse
in some ramifications.”
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