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Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has drawn attention to what he described as serial executive and judicial fraud being perpetrated against him since his extraordinary rendition in 2021.

In an open letter addressed to Nigerians yesterday, Kanu said: ‘’In a judgment entered on March 1, 2017, the Federal High Court, Abuja, ruled that the ‘IPOB is not an unlawful group’. At the time, it received widespread publicity which can be verified.

‘’This landmark ruling (made by the court before it turned unjust) emanated in criminal proceedings that required ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ and in which the federal government and my humble self presented our respective cases.

‘’Alas! Instead of the federal government going on appeal as the law mandated (if they are dissatisfied with the judgment), the former Attorney-General (Abubakar Malami) went behind closed doors with a letter signed by late Abba Kyari and got IPOB proscribed/tagged a terrorist group in an ex parte proceedings that conducted without notice to me or to the IPOB. ‘’This abominable incident was the earliest sign yet that the government and its judiciary have struck an unholy and fraudulent alliance to deny me my rights and thereby imperil the life and liberty of millions who identify with IPOB.

‘’On October 26, 2022, a Federal High Court declared my extraordinary rendition and detention as unconstitutional, stating that: ‘the manner of arrest and detention of the Applicant (Mazi Nnamdi Kanu) in Kenya, his continued detention in Abuja, his subjection to physical and mental trauma by the Respondents, the inhuman and degrading treatment meted out to the Applicant amounts to a brazen violation of the Applicant’s fundamental right to dignity of his person and threat to life under Section 34 (1)(a) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).’

‘’The court further ordered the federal government to apologize to me and pay me compensation. In a responsible society and well-ordered, run by a responsible government, this judgment is sufficient to have ended my lengthy detention and encourage the federal government to constructively engage me on the issue of the self-determination agitation that triggered this whole saga.

‘’Pedal back to October 13, 2022, when the Court of Appeal held that: ‘The courts must never shy away from calling the executive to order when they resort to acts of ‘executive lawlessness.’

‘’The courts must maintain a balance between ensuring that law and order is obeyed and the protection of the individual from oppressive actions by the executive.

‘’By the forcible abduction and extraordinary rendition of the Appellant (Mazi Nnamdi Kanu) from Kenya to this country on the 27th day of June 2021, in violation of international and state laws, the lower court or, indeed, any court in this country is divested of jurisdiction to entertain charges against the Appellant’.

‘’Despite the clarity of this judgment and its comportment with reason, the federal government refused to release me from detention while it went behind closed doors and connived with three other justices of the court of appeal who fraudulently and swiftly sat on appeal over the judgment and practically destroyed it by issuing what they termed ‘a stay of execution’.

‘’One may then ask: Is it not abominable for a court to stay a judgment the government already disobeyed? In a plethora of cases, the Supreme Court has held that anybody who disobeys a related court order cannot be given any judicial relief until such an order is obeyed. ‘’This is a sound reasoning that applies to everybody but is fraudulently overlooked when it comes to my case. Fast forward to 15th December 2023 when the Supreme Court sent back my case to the Federal High Court for trial.

‘’For avoidance of doubt, that was not the only decision the Supreme Court made. It also decided that my bail should not have been revoked and it went on to state clearly that the judge exhibited significant and unacceptable bias by revoking my bail.

‘’In a sane society, one would expect that when the High court received my case from the Supreme Court and hankered down for trial, it was also duty-bound to restore my bail in line with the pronouncement of the apex court.

‘’But that did not happen. Why? Well, your guess is as good as mine and that is: the Court connived with the federal government to continue my detention in violation of Section 287 of the Nigerian Constitution.

‘’On September 24, 2024, I decided that I had had enough of taking my chances at getting justice from a judge that, in June 2021, sent me to secret police detention without fair hearing, later refused to transfer me to prison to better prepare for my trial and capped it all by refusing to restore my bail and instead ordering an accelerated trial in the face of the reality that I will never get a fair trial whilst detained at the DSS.

‘’These are the major reasons that compelled me to request recusal of the judge and having consented to it, she proceeded to make an order removing herself from my case. That order was never challenged on appeal; thus it remains extant to this day.

‘’But instead of the Chief judge of the Federal High Court doing the lawful thing by asg my case to another judge, he connived with the federal government to eat crow and send my case to a judge that stands recused by a valid order.

‘’To conclude this open letter, let me make it clear that it should in no way be construed to mean that there are no decent judges in Nigeria that can be trusted to deliver even-handed justice in my case. That is not the issue.

‘’Instead, the issue is that my case is deliberately being shielded from judges and justices who are deemed to be committed to doing justice, even when it means that the federal government must lose.

‘’Be that as it may, if it will take the rest of my life in detention to produce me before a proper and impartial court, so be it. But let me say this for the world to know: I will not succumb to any trial conducted by any judge or court whose jurisdiction does not constitutional muster. Not now, not ever.’’

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/02/kanu-raises-alarm-alleges-tricks-by-fg-to-perpetually-hold-him-down/amp/

This foolish terrorist keep quoting Zoo constitution wrongly instead of him to face justice

Read first before rushing to talk out of point.

Most Nigerian youths don't read

They should follow court order and release this man please. It's long overdue

South East political leaders are the ones frustrating Kanu's court proceedings

They don't want him to be released as Kanu might spill the beans about everything. We can all see the ruthless work they are doing with the ESN, UGM boys lately.

I think Kanu is safe for now being with DSS

helinues:
South East political leaders are the ones frustrating Kanu's court proceedings

They don't want him to be released as Kanu might spill the beans about everything. We can all see the ruthless work they are doing with the ESN, UGM boys lately.

I think Kanu is safe for now being with DSS

Let him spend ten years in jail before judgement. Then life imprisonment for treason and inciting people to death! He will now be freed silently in the year 2050. That is, If he's still alive then.

The last court proceeding, I couldn't help but to fall in love with this man MNK. He shut up the FG stooge , the illiterate Binta Nyako, degrade her so much, shows her how foolish she is and still won't allow the illiterate to preside over his case. Forget, MNK is a warrior, a fearless leader.

Captured Bokoharam are eventually released as repentant terrorist. something unheard of even in the Arab world,but a freedom fighter is locked up because of his ethnicity if not that my igbo ethnic group is full of foolishh leaders who put money first before motherland and never aligns with the people ideology we could have just done this the Jewish style unfortunately we are Africans,don't worry nature and the universe will take its due course nothing last forever tables will turn.

AbuTwins:
Let him spend ten years in jail before judgement. Then life imprisonment for treason and inciting people to death! He will now be freed silently in the year 2050. That is, If he's still alive then.

The average hate-full mind of yaribastards and fo.lani nomadic bastards.

Light must always outlive darkness las las

MadamVanessa:




The last court proceeding, I couldn't help but to fall in love with this man MNK. He shut up the Fg stooge Binta Nyako, degrade her so much, shows her how foolish she's and still won't allow her to preside over his case. Forget, MNK is a warrior, a fearless leader.

after his brouhaha they still lock him up and continue to eat watery beans

I said some times ago that Kanu asking Justice Nyako to recuse herself from his case had paved way for FG to hold him perpetually. When I said this Ipobidients wanted to lynch me with verbal barrages.
Kanu trial will start all over again. Soon the file would go missing in transit.

beerfraud:
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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/02/kanu-raises-alarm-alleges-tricks-by-fg-to-perpetually-hold-him-down/amp/

He will rot in prison. By the time he is 90 years in prison he will understand. Fuckinf terrorist is not any different from Boko Haram and bandits in mentality. Werey☹️

Ok

Na you dey delay now! Or who's insisting the courts can't try him?

Mandela wey dey fear prison

Their evil plans will hit a brick wall

Before nko

MadamVanessa:




The last court proceeding, I couldn't help but to fall in love with this man MNK. He shut up the Fg stooge Binta Nyako, degrade her so much, shows her how foolish she's and still won't allow her to preside over his case. Forget, MNK is a warrior, a fearless leader.

Very fearless. I just wish he was your daddy……

I whatever the government is doing to this guy.

When he was inciting violence from another country in the name of fighting for secession, he didn't know a day like this would come abi?

The only secessionist that I have come to like is that Igboho guy. In his case, he was calling for secession and still living in Nigeria. That is how it should be. You should be at the forefront leading your soldiers.

The same thing this idiot Kanu did is the same thing that Finland guy is doing and nobody is saying anything. If by chance they get hold of him and start giving him an inhuman treatment, that's when you lot will finally have a voice.

I don't have a problem with you fighting for your freedom but come and live here and fight for it. You cannot be living in a first world country and be inciting people back home.

Same thing that David Hundeyin guy is doing on twitter.

Una go learn

try and rest

beerfraud:
This foolish terrorist keep quoting Zoo constitution wrongly instead of him to face justice

RAISE ALARM TO WHO EXACTLY? As in, you want who to come and free you. Whoever make any move to save you may end up in detention with you. This terrorist did not actually know the gravity of what he use his utterances to cause in Nigeria, You are lucky this is under democracy, by now you will be in hell with people you have killed with your evil and war utterances.

OK ,



Princess Faith Chukwu

beerfraud:
This foolish terrorist keep quoting Zoo constitution wrongly instead of him to face justice

No animal in the zoo, both dead and alive has the balls to make MNK to face justice.

If you fvck up inside the zoo, the zoo is more likely deal with you without even going to court, they won't even waste resources holding you captive, you got no level, you are extremely expendable.
A Terrorist that the zoo is scared of? Aren't you entertained boy?

Day don break 4 did one
U go die 4 cell, dey play

bro just realized this

This is laughable, until you know the penalty of treason and ordered the killing of security personnels you will know what you causedto your self

This guy is a bloody idiot ! Has he spent up to two years that he’s saying this rubbish?? What about people that are celebrating their 10th year anniversary??