FG Should Have Awaited Legal Actions Against Kanu – Ozekhome

Mike Ozekhome 

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Mike Ozekhome, has blamed the indicated attack by troops of the home of the pioneer of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. 

This comes hours after the IPOB pioneer was truant in court after he was blamed by the Federal Government for participating in exercises that posture danger to Nigeria's power. 

Responding to the said intrusion when he showed up on Channels Television's Politics Today, Ozekhome said the legislature ought to have sat tight for the consequence of the legitimate moves made against the IPOB pioneer and not turn to attacking his habitation by the military. 

"Presently expecting that Nnamdi Kanu has ruptured each and every material specific of those safeguards, what is the appropriate response? The appropriate response is again through the legal procedure," he said on Tuesday. 

"The Federal Government has officially made the best choice through its legal advisors that recorded a movement under the steady gaze of a similar judge, Justice Binta Nyako, to state 'my ruler, Nnamdi Kanu has ruptured these safeguard conditions. The Federal Government ought to have sat tight for that legitimate procedure to finish as opposed to attack the home through the military." 

Kanu was captured in 2015 and accused of 11 tallies verging on psychological oppression and treasonable lawful offense. 

Six of the charges, including that of psychological oppression were struck out in January 2017 and he was thusly allowed safeguard with a few conditions on April 25, 2017. 

The Senator speaking to Abia South Senatorial District, Enyinaya Abaribe, and two others had volunteered as sureties for him. 

In September 2017, the Nigerian Army began the second period of its Operation Python Dance in the South East, after which there was an encounter amongst warriors and IPOB individuals in Abia State. 

Following Kanu's charged vanishing, Senator Abaribe moved toward the court asking for to be released from the suretyship, bond and recognizance of his safeguard. 

Ozekhome, nonetheless, thinks attacking Kanu's living arrangement has confounded the issue, saying Nigerians saw "when they (warriors) entered the house." 

"We saw that that was the last time Nigerians saw Nnamdi Kanu in his home. That is the thing that you call the 'precept of the last scene'. So passing by the teaching of last observed, and the tenet of 'res ipsa loquitur', it implies that the last time Nigerians saw Nnamdi Kanu was the point at which he was in his home in Umuahia and the military attacked that home and he has not been seen from that point forward," he included. 

On Senator Abaribe's application, the attorney stated, "That is the place segment 171 of the organization of the Criminal Justice Act becomes an integral factor." 

"The segment says a surety can backpedal to court and apply and say 'hi sir, release me from my suretyship commitment, … I can never again observe the individual that I stood surety for in light of the fact that that individual, after the attack of his home, I've not seen him. Abaribe in law will be qualified for approach the court for such supplications." 

"The inquiry at that point comes; would you be able to reveal to Senator Abaribe to create a man that he can't lay hands on? God prohibit, let us expect Nnamdi Kanu was captured and he's in ruffians' cave, would you be able to call Abaribe and say 'you should deliver Nnamdi Kanu, despite the fact that we know that he's in the hijackers' nook?" he pondered.