Following the Court of Appeal judgment discharging Kanu last Thursday, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Kanu in a statement made available to PUNCH in Umuahia says “Nigeria’s disobedience of a 2018 decision of a continental tribunal on Kanu was the first ‘mishandling’ “.
This was as John Campbell, the former US Ambassador to Nigeria cautioned in a tweet, cautioned that Nigeria cannot afford any more ‘mishandling’ of the matter of Nnamdi Kanu for the sake of safety and security of the nation.
According to Ejimakor, “The extraordinary rendition was the second, while putting Kanu on trial was the third.
“Disobeying the United Nations was the fourth and the likelihood of disobeying the judgment of the Court of Appeal will be the fifth”.
Barr Ejimakor therefore called on “Nigerians of means and influence, and the international community to intervene in persuading Nigeria to promptly comply with the court order which discharged Kanu from all the criminal charges pending against him”.
It would be recalled that on Thursday, October 13, the Appeal Court that sat at Abuja cleared the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of all the charges against him and consequently discharged him.
However, the Attorney General of the federation, Abubarkar Malami says, Kanu was only discharged, not acquitted, thus raising doubts of the readiness of the federal government to release Kanu.
