NIGERIA COURT MUST PROTECT THE SANCTITY OF HER JUDICIARY, ORDER KANU'S UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE - IPOB

NIGERIA COURT MUST PROTECT THE SANCTITY OF THE INSTITUTION OF JUDICIARY BY ORDERING FOR THE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF MAZI NNAMDI KANU - IPOB 

September 30, 2022|The Biafra Times

We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of the great liberator and prophet Mazi Nnamdi KANU wish to state unequivocally, that the rendition of the IPOB leader from Kenya to Nigeria since June last year till date is a violation of his fundamental rights. 

Abinitio, we wish to place it on record that the criminal abduction, torture, illegal detention and unlawful transfer of great Leader- Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria constitutes a natural bar to any prosecution or his further detention in DSS solitary confinement.

Extraordinary rendition is a serious crime under international law. No civilized nation in the world, more so, those under common law system of justice, condone kidnapping and extrajudicial transfer of suspects across international borders, without the authority of law grounded in an extradition process. 

Nigeria court must protect sanctity of the institution of judiciary by ordering for the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on the face of the violations of international and local laws by Nigeria Government in the abduction and extraordinary rendition of our great leader and prophet Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. 

A plethora of judicial pronouncements from the US to Canada, UK, New Zealand, Australia and even South Africa under the apartheid regime, are uniform in their condemnation of extraordinary rendition. 

Ironically, the present Attorney General of Nigeria, is also against Extraordinary rendition but it appears only so, when it concerns people from his Fulani tribe like the one concerning his dubious officer ACP Abba Kyari who America intelligence demanded from Nigeria to US. This Government hypocritical stance was demonstrated in the case of disgraced/suspended ACP Abba Kyari, who was allowed to undergo extradition proceedings in Abuja to contest a US warrant of arrest issued against him. But our Leader being of the Igbo ethnic stock was denied the same due process of law in Nairobi Kenya. 

If an obnoxious regime like the erstwhile apartheid regime in South Africa can be compelled by their own apartheid Appeal Court in Pretoria, to recognize the illegality of Extraordinary rendition, we therefore implore Nigerian Courts here in Abuja to prevail upon the present regime to release our great Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu without further hesitation or delay.

Nigerian Government can amend and prefer new charges from now till thy kingdom come, the fact of the matter remains that no court in Nigeria has the authority or jurisdiction to try our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Nigerian Government is in material breach of a plethora of laws and conventions both municipal and international. Nigerian Court must send an unequivocal message that Executive lawlessness and prosecutorial banditry cannot be tolerated in a constitutional democracy as pretentiously practice in Nigeria.

The image maker of IPOB wish to let public know that Abubakar Malami lied under oath.

Malami and APC Government are in a mess for perjuring themselves in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's matter. Imagine an Attorney General that doesn’t know the law he is meant to be a Chief Law Officer of Nigeria. Malami lied and has persisted in these lies by pleading charges that did not meet the requirements of SEC. 195 of their Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA). This is perjury contrary to SEC. 117 of the Criminal Code Act which state that: Any person, in any judicial proceedings, or for the purposes of instituting any judicial proceeding, knowingly gives false testimony touching any matter which is material to any question then pending in that proceedings, or intended to be raised in that proceedings, is guilty of an offence which is called perjury”.

By levying the following charges, none of which contains date, time and place of where the alleged offence was committed, the mandatory legal requirement to ensure its total compliance, was flagrantly disregarded by Malami in the breach of SEC. 196 of ACJA.

Unfortunately, Justice Binta Nyako saw this but her maternal instinct to protect her husband and son facing sham corruption charges and the wider interest of her Fulani tribe to maintain a stranglehold on the lives of other ethnic groups in Nigeria led her to pervert the course of justice in her refusal to dismiss all the charges.

We insist that our great Leader Mazi Nnnamdi Kanu should be released unconditionally without Further delay/ hesitation

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB WORLDWIDE

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Muhammed Tanko: IPOB leader to disembowel the stinking Nigerian judiciary and X-ray Fulanization, in a live broadcast today

From The Office Of Our Indefatigable Supreme Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

July 19, 2019 || The Biafra Times

Following the disgraceful and utterly prejudicial display of unbridled primitive Fulani arrogance by the grammaticall'y challenged Sharia Judge Muhammed Tanko before the Zoo Senate earlier today, in the matter of his rubber stamp confirmation hearing, I will be presenting a broadcast of seismic proportions on Radio Biafra to critically examine and analyse the decaying state of Nigerian courts and impotence of its legislature. I will not only x-ray the concerted Fulanisation of all arms of government by this rogue regime and their unconstitutional appointment of the Fulani Sharia Judge Muhammed Tanko, I will disembowel the stinking Zoo judiciary in a manner that will leave the world in no doubt that President Trump's description of Nigeria as a shit-hole is actually a compliment.

If the intention of the cabal and their slave Tinubu is to use this cringe worthy incoherent rant by Tanko to deflect attention away from their failed murderous Fulani incursion into the south, through deliberate news management and false agenda setting, then Muhammed Tanko, the Fulani cabal along with their lick-spittle Bola Ahmed Tinubu have all failed spectacularly.

People are now wiser than these buffoons think. The hope that Lagos-Abuja media houses will lead with this story for the sole purpose of diverting the public's attention away from rampaging Fulani terrorists across Nigeria is dead on arrival. The public won't buy it. Our honourable and principled resistance against murderous Fulani terrorists and their banditry across our regions will continue unabated until they are all silenced and this satanic British created colonial contraption called Nigeria dismembered for eternity.

As long as IPOB lives, there will be no RUGA.

Venue: Radio Biafra (on air, online, on satellite)

Date: Friday July 19, 2019

Time: 7 pm Biafraland Time

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Biafra: Absence of FG’s witnesses stalls trial of Kanu’s co-defendants

...Defendants can continue to enjoy their bail but our witnesses must be protected – Judge says; expresses satisfaction over appearance of defendants

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor and Chikwas Onu Ikpe | The Biafra Times

November 15, 2018

ABUJA— An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court Wednesday, adjourned hearing till March 26, 2019 on the suit filed against co-defendants to leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, following the absence of the prosecution witnesses in court.

Trial Justice Binta Nyako made the ruling following a request by the Federal Government’s counsel, Shuaibu Labaran, to adjourn hearing on the matter due to the failure of his witnesses to appear before the court.

Labaran, while moving a motion for adjournment, informed the court that one of the prime witnesses was away for an official assignment hence, not available for yesterday’s proceedings.

But the lead counsel to the defendants, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, opposed the oral application for an adjournment on grounds of a pending application challenging the competence of the charges slandered against the defendants.

According to him, “My Lord, we have a pending application challenging the competence of the charge before filed on 27th March last year.

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“We’re urging My Lord, to hear this application by virtue of Section 3(c) of the Federal High Court practice direction but the prosecution is yet to file a response and I don’t think they intend to respond to this application.”

In reaction to Ejiofor’s objection, the prosecuting counsel, Labaran, told the court that they have not been served with the copy of the application, adding that the adjournment he was seeking was for just a day.

“My Lord, we’re not served. If they give us a copy, we’ll look at it. If it merits our response, we’ll do that immediately but we’re not served,” he stated.

Labaran added, “My Lord, I have two other of my witnesses in court. In view of the witnesses’ protection, which has already been granted by this Honourable court.

“The point I need to make is that two of my witnesses are in court but my next witness is not in court today and the sequence of my case does not suggest me jumping the line of my presentation of evidence and in the light of that, I didn’t ask for any long adjournment and that is to exhibit the seriousness the prosecution has attached to this case.

“My witness in question travelled for an official trip and he landed this afternoon. I know today’s already gone and I impressed on him to be in court tomorrow.”

Meanwhile, lawyer to the second defendant, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Mr I. Efere, while reacting to the application for an adjournment, demanded the court to award the sum of N500,000 against the FG for expenses incurred while attending the court.

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According to the lawyer, “It has passed three months when this court gave us this date. They were all aware that today is the continuation of the trial and then they walked into this court on akimbo to tell this court that their witness is not in court without cogent reasons.

“My Lord, I hereby apply for costs. I have my client who is coming from Enugu. He flew in and it must have cost him a lot of money and time. I want the court, in the interest of justice, to look into our consideration.”

When the judge asked him how much he want, the lawyer replied, “I’m not very cheap. I’m asking for five hundred thousand naira. I supposed to have travelled out but I had to re-adjust. I pray the indulgence of this court to consider the issues of cost, including wasted costs on lawyers, so that we can come to court and have a day in court rather than just coming here and asking for adjournment over frivolous reasons.”

Also, in his reaction, lawyer to the third defendant, Benjamin Madubugwu, Mr P.A.N Ejiofor asked court to foreclose the prosecution’s application for an adjournment.

According to him, “there must be a cogent reason to suggest an adjournment. This matter came up last on June 25, 2018 and the prosecution has more than one witness and he’s telling us ‘one witness is not available’. What about the others? He should have at least selected one from the rank of all the witnesses.

“So, My Lord, under that circumstance, we urge this court to foreclose them so that we can thrive upon the evidence that is available already and if that is done, we may not even need to move our motion that is pending.”

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Counsel to the fourth defendant, David Nwawuisi, Mr Maxwell Okpara, also, in his reaction, aligned himself with the submissions of the third defendant.

“Yes, My Lord, I just aligned myself to the resolution of my learned friend; considering the fact that the prosecution has succeeded in embarrassing my client. He lost his marriage, he lost his job and he just started life afresh,” Okpara asserted.

The court after hearing the arguments, adjourned the trial in favour of the prosecution, while also allowing the defendants to continue to enjoy their bail as she expressed satisfaction for their presence in court.

“On a very serious note, I’m going to grant the adjournment because we need to get our witnesses’ protection. The ones we have here are a bit faulty. We need to get them in order. We have several cases that needs witness protection. So I’m going to allow the gentlemen(defendants) to continue with their bail. I’m very impressed they were in time. I saw them when they came,” the judge concluded.

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IPOB Trial: “DSS has copy of my gun license,” Benjamin Madubugwu thunders as court declines to hear bail applications

•Says I’m being prosecuted because of my Biafran identity


By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor, Chikwas Onu Ikpe //
For Biafra Writers

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March 28, 2018

ABUJA— There was a heated outburst today inside the courtroom of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, by the four IPOB defendants as the court ended its proceedings without calling up their bail applications for hearing.

The court had earlier slated today to adopt the bail applications of the four defendants namely, Bright Chimezie, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi and Chidiebere Onwudiwe whose charges were amended at the previous session.

Visibly angered about the development, the second defendant, Benjamin Madubugwu, said he believes the case is no longer between the Federal Government of Nigeria and IPOB members but between the Fulanis and IPOB, adding that his application was deliberately delayed becausr he is a Biafran.

“I know why this is happening to me because I am an Igbo man, a Biafran, that is why it’s like this.

“All these herdsmen killing people everywhere in Nigeria, how many have been arrested? Am in prison, I’ve not seen them in prison.

“Why would someone put me in prison for 3 years without telling me my crime? How can they charge me for unlawful possession of firearms when I have license? It was duly licensed. You(DSS) have a copy of the license. Go and ask the DSS when they invaded my house, they took the copy of my gun’s license and they know, yet, they’re still keeping me hostage,” he lamented.

Madubugwu added that for over three years he has been detained without trial, the international community remained silent in his plight even as his health condition deterioriates in prison custody.

He asked, “Why is the world keeping quiet? Nobody wants to hear me out. Nobody wants to help me. Is it because we’re Biafrans? Why are we being neglected? What is my crime for Christ’s sake? I have been keeping quiet for long and I would no longer keep quiet. This is pure injustice.”

However, as they(defendants) refused to return to prison custody pending when a new date to consider their application is fixed, it took the intervention of thr defense lawyers led by Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor to calm down the restiveness and charged atmosphere created by the aggrieved defendants.

The court, however, finally slated April 13, 2018, to adopt their bail applications.

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Biafra: Corrupt Nigerian government, judiciary won't consider IPOB members innocent in their courts

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu || For Biafra Writers

March 26, 2018

Biafran elders normally say that the cockroach cannot be innocent in the gathering of the fowls and neither can the fowl be chairman in the midst of the hawks. Just like Birago Diop, a renowned poet from Oaukam in Senegal would always say, that the principal problem of Africa is that she fails to listen to the words of their ancestors that comes in clumsy voices, on that light, I beg to differ by taking heed to the unadulterated wisdom of our forefathers(Ndi Gboo).

The trial of the four accused members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, with a witness appearing behind a shield otherwise known as secret trial, provided by the Nigerian judiciary in an open case of public interest is simply uncalled for. It is the highest height of injustice, impunity and a huge slap on the Nigerian judicial system. Are we to talk about the unwarranted and unlawful invasion of the residence of the IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu? How the court is compelling Kanu's surety, Enyinnaya Abaribe to produce the former in court when it is crystal clear that it lies in the onus of the Nigerian army who invaded his house, to provide him because since after the military invasion, no one has heard nor seen Nnamdi Kanu. A lawcourt which is expected to uphold the doctrine of last seen in this issue of the missing IPOB leader is busy playing games with justice. What about the several bail orders that were flouted? Have we forgotten the purported story of the missing file in a supposed lawcourt? This is too much. It is clear for all to see.

Justice is intentionally been delayed and subverted by the Nigerian judiciary under Justice Binta Nyako, the trial judge, through every means known to man. One of such deliberate delays is achieved through the series of long adjournments that they are applying to bewitch justice. Secondly, the entertainment of applications of new charges filed against the defendants in the morning of the court session. Also, Justice Binta Nyako traveling when she has a sensitive case like this. The injustice is unfathomable in history.

It is a common saying that dogs in the same street bark alike. It doesn't matter if Binta Nyako steps down from the case, any other judge in Nigeria that presides over IPOB/Nigeria case would authomatically rule in favour of Nigeria. A reliable judge with a good sense of judgment from Nigeria than Binta Nyako, will never emerge. No matter whoever that engages, the outcome of every court proceeding is always pre-determined and programmed to serve the vested interest of Nigeria against common citizens.

Do not in anyway doubt the authenticity of my observations if you believe that he who pays the piper dictates the tune. In the last ECOWAS court case in Abuja, involving the IPOB leader, I overheard a Nigerian lawyer saying that since the Nigerian government is the one sponsoring the transportation of ECOWAS judges and other things that has to do with his coming in into the country, the judge must base its rulings to favour the interests of the government. It's like a written script been played out by government's lawyer and the judge presiding over the case in each court session.

It is necessary for all IPOB members not to put all their hopes for a positive change on Nigerian courts especially now that we have a tyrant and a dictator in power who has little or no regard for the rule of law. Let the IPOB lawyers be fulfilling all righteousness by showing up on each court date and saying it the way it is as they have been doing while the members buckle-up on the issues of referendum facing the Biafra restoration struggle. Any form of distraction must be resisted. Referendum is the next target and must be achieved.

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