Fresh Biafra update trending as the long time detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi
Kanu, yesterday told the Federal Government to stop what he called the
harassment of judicial officers handling his case.
Latest news as reported reveal that the IPOB leader, who has already initiated a contempt proceeding against
the Federal Government following its refusal to obey the orders made by
Justice Adetokunbo Ademola directing his unconditional release, pointed
out that the recent invasion of the judge’s residence by operatives of
the Department of State Services (DSS), was partly because he granted
him (Kanu) bail.
Speaking through his defence lawyer, Barrister Ifeanyi, in a statement
issued in Abuja and obtained by News reporters, Kanu said the letter
written by Justice Ademola to the National Judicial Council (NJC) in
which he narrated his ordeals in the hands of DSS operatives was a
pointer to the excesses of the executive lawlessness and interference in
the judicial process.
He added that the action had shown desperate move by the Federal
Government to intimidate the judicial officer that his case would be
assigned to and refrain him or her from granting him bail in line with
the direction expressed by President Muhammadu Buhari during his
presidential media chat on December 30, 2015 that no court in Nigeria
will grant Nnamdi Kanu bail.
“We roundly condemn the government’s interference with the judicial
process in Nnamdi Kanu’s cases and the executive extra-judicial
pronouncements.
The executive should henceforth refrain from the harassment of judicial
officers handling the matters and promptly take all reasonable steps to
comply with the order of the court that directed Nnamdi Kanu’s
unconditional release. “This is a country that practices constitutional
democracy, where the rule of law reigns supreme.
On the contrary, what we are seeing in practice is flagrant disobedience
to court orders and violation of same constitution they had sworn to
uphold,” he said.
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