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From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has expressed its dissapoinment over the resumption of its leaders case in court.
Spokesperson of the group in a statement he released to newsmen on Wednesday said the group is dissapointed in the Federal Government for revisiting the matter it believed was already ruled upon.
He said “Nigerian Supreme Court Justices derailed and mishandled justice by quashing the appeal court’s judgment in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case. The judgment came to the world as a big surprise.
“All Nigerians and non-Nigerians have great doubts that the Nigeria Judiciary delivered justice on this matter even as Abuja High Court commences the trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on February 8, 2024. This is following the order by the Supreme Court’s minority justice ruling.
“The Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered a confusing written judgment against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on December 15, 2023.
“During the Supreme Court judgment on December 15, 2023, the Justices affirmed that it was unlawful for the Nigerian government to have arrested and extraordinaryly renditioned Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria.
” But they still stopped the landmark decision and judgment of Nigeria Appeal Court Justices. They also affirmed that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu did not jump bail, which was the main reason that the Nigerian government broke international laws and treaty of extradition.
“By arresting and extraordinarily renditioning Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, they lost all their rights to try him. On what grounds did the Justices return the case back to the High Court after Mazi Nnamdi Kanu won the case in Appeal Court?
” Why will the Justices set aside the judgment of the Appeal Court that discharged and acquitted Mazi Nnamdi Kanu but refused to deliver their own independent judgment on the matter?
“As much as we believed that the Judges were pressured to read a compromised written judgement to be used against a peaceful freedom fighter and a prisoner of conscience, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, nevertheless they played a smart game.
” They understood the consequences affirming the illegality of extraordinary rendition by the Nigeria government. That’s why they connivilly and unprofessionally sent the case back to the High Court so that the federal government will fulfill their agenda. Pontius Pilate Justices indeed.
“The public should take note that the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed February 8, 2024, as a date to commence what would be a scripted or endless Court case. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will be represented at the court by his legal team.
“But we want to inform the Nigeria government and the international community that IPOB have lost confidence in the Nigeria Judiciary until they prove otherwise.
“The international community, the Human Right Organization, and Civil Society groups should be aware that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are being persecuted for peacefully championing Biafra Self Determination by the Nigerian Government, Nigerian Security Forces and the Nigerian Supreme Court.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been detained in a solidarity confinement in Nigeria’s DSS, for almost 3 years. He has been denied access to visitors of his choice as permitted by the High Court in Nigeria.
” He is being subjected to all manner of ill treatments, including starvation, drug abuse, and isolation in DSS solidarity confinement. His health has deteriorated, and he doesn’t have access to quality medications and professional private physicians”. Powerful stated.
