By Seun Opejobi Aloy Ejimakor, the lead counsel of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said the Biafra...
By Seun Opejobi
Aloy Ejimakor, the lead counsel of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of
the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said the Biafra agitator ought to
have been released by the Supreme Court ruling of December 15, 2023.
Ejimakor said the Supreme Court had ruled that Kanu was on
bail and in custody of the law when his home was illegally invaded by military
officers.
Recall that Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High
Court had granted Kanu bail in 2017. Shortly after the bail, the IPOB leader
eloped to Europe after military personnel invaded his residence in the
Afaraukwu area of Abia State.
He was however rearrested in Kenya and repatriated to
Nigeria in 2021.
Since his repatriation, Kanu had remained in the custody of
the Department of State Services, DSS, as the Nigerian government refused to
release him despite orders by the Appeal Court.
However, Ejimakor said Kanu left Nigeria after the military
invasion to preserve his life.
Posting on X, Ejimakor wrote: “It’s not wrong for anybody to
say that MAZI NNAMDI KANU ought to be freed on the basis of the 15th December
2023 judgment of the Supreme Court because, despite remitting the case for
trial, the Court also held that Kanu “was on bail and therefore in custody of
the law when his home was illegally invaded by heavily armed military officers
of the appellant causing him to flee from his home and the country to secure
his life. In the face of such an attack, it was responsible for him to flee to
secure his life and physical well being.
“That is what any normal and reasonable human being would do
in that circumstance to preserve his life and physical well-being. It is
glaring that the consequences of that attack were intended or foreseeable. This
is not arguable. The appellant’s officials knew that their invasion of the
respondent’s home caused him to run away to secure his life and physical
well-being.”
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