Nnamdi Kanu Global Defence Consortium, a group of lawyers fighting for his freedom, have faulted Justice James Omotosho’s striking out of the IPOB leader’s case.
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Kanu had filed a motion in which he sought transfer from the Sokoto Prison to a correctional facility in the Federal Capital Territory or its environs.
The motion was struck out after Demdoo Asan, senior legal officer of the Legal Aid Council, who represented Kanu in the matter, informed the court that he wanted to withdraw due to some irreconcilable issues.
Among other reasons, Asan reportedly said Kanu wanted to dictate the tune of the matter and control what counsel would say in court, a condition which he said he could not accept in good faith.
However, in a statement shortly after the court ruling, Njoku Jude Njoku, on behalf of the Nnamdi Kanu Global Defence Consortium, faulted the court for assigning a lawyer from the Legal Aid Council to Kanu in the matter.
“Lawyers from the Legal Aid Council, a Nigerian government agency under the Ministry of Justice, are usually assigned to persons who have no counsel to defend them in court. Kanu had earlier, before his conviction, taken personal charge of his case, opting to represent himself in court.”
The statement observed that the Legal Aid Council lawyer did not have access to Kanu for any meaningful representation in court.
“Today’s (Tuesday) so-called “hearing” was never about justice. It was procedural theater, designed to generate headlines, manufacture false finality, and distract from the constitutional collapse already embedded in the judgment under appeal.
“A court that convicted a defendant without a valid offence-creating law in force now seeks relevance by striking out a motion filed under conditions of deliberate isolation from counsel.
“The invocation of a so-called “Legal Aid” lawyer only deepens the farce. A lawyer who has never visited Mazi Nnamdi Kanu cannot access him in Sokoto, and does not understand the architecture of the appeal, cannot pretend to speak to the substance of what is at stake.”
Kanu’s defence team described the proceedings that led to the striking out of the motion as a charade, adding that
Kanu’s conviction is to be challenged at the Court of Appeal.
In a different breathe, a United States of America-based group,The Rising Foundation (TRF), has slammed Governor Chukwuma Soludo for using force to stop the Monday sit-at-home in Anambra.
A release by Dr. Maxwell Dede on behalf of TRF warned the governor against forcing traders in Onitsha to go to market on Mondays against their wish.
“The current crisis in Onitsha is not a result of merchant disobedience but of gubernatorial failure and dictatorial impulse. Instead of addressing the root cause of regional tension—the unlawful detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu—Governor Soludo has chosen to play the oppressor.
His decree to forcibly shut down markets and his deployment of predominantly non-Igbo military and police personnel to blockade economic arteries is the act of a tin-pot dictator, not a democratic leader.
While TRF insisted that the siege on Onitsha must be lifted, it maintained that the path to peace in the South-East is through justice, dialogue, and the release of Nnamdi Kanu and not through military barricades and economic suffocation.
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