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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
Imo State Attorney General Emeritus and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume SAN has described the prosecution and judgment of the Federal High Court that slammed a life imprisonment on Nnamdi Kanu on alleged acts of terrorism as a combination of disservice to the Nigerian state and its people.
The senior lawyer noted: “Certainly the prosecution and conviction is about terrorism, otherwise how come that in January 2018, the former governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom conducted a mass burial for 73 indigenes who were brutally killed by Fulani herdsmen, then in March of the same year, the governor subsequently brought out 100 coffins of same people brutally killed in another aggression by herdsmen, and in June 2025, 200 people were brutally killed in Yelewata community in June State by same Fulani herdsmen, yet how many has been prosecuted & sentenced for those heinous crimes or charged of terrorism.
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Ume further stated that for years the people of Plateau State have been victims of brutal massacre by the Fulani herdsmen and no one is being charged, then charging and sentencing Nnamdi Kanu on terrorism is lip service.
“At the end of the day it’s not about Nnamdi Kanu but the fate of our children.
“The curious irony is that while the Federal High Court sentenced a Boko Haram leader to 20 years, Nnamdi Kanu is sentenced to life imprisonment. A good tale of a hegemonic script.”
