Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers scold FG for reintroducing  seven count charges already struck out by court

The legal team of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has scolded the federal government for reawakening seven count charges against its clients on issues that have already be struck out by the court.

IPOB’s Lead Counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Esq., in a statement – dispelling the fears on the reported new seven-count amended charge filed against our indefatigable client, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, before Justice B.F.M. Nyako of Federal High Court, Abuja – noted that the attention of the Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s formidable legal team, ably led by Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has been drawn  to the much publicized (but rumored) new 7 count amended charge allegedly filed against their Indefatigable Client, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, by the Federal Government. Ejiofor  asserted that from all indications, the new alleged charge has the same Charge No. FHC/ABJ/ER/383/2015, as the one already pronounced upon and struck out by the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division. He maintained that the said intermediate court completely discharged Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu; and further prohibited his being tried or prosecuted in any court of law in Nigeria.

Ejiofor insisted that the said judgment of the Court of Appeal is extant and still subsists till date; and has not been set aside by any superior court. He stated that  Onyendu Mazi  Nnamdi Kanu’ s formidable team ably by the oracle of the Law, Chief Ozekhome SAN, has already promptly appealed to the Supreme Court against the Court of Appeal’s ruling staying execution of its own judgment which had set Kanu free. He noted that the Appeal in respect thereto has been duly entered in Appeal No. SC/CR/1394/2022, at the Supreme Court, and is now awaiting a date for hearing.

Ejiofor declared: “It is also worthy to note that this judgment of the Court of Appeal still stands till date as same has not been set aside by the Supreme Court.

“It is imperative to state, therefore, that on the strength of this judgment, no CHARGE of whatever nature, and under any guise, can ever be presented or stand against Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu before any court of law in Nigeria.

“Our inquiry this evening upon reading about the phantom charge in the social media, revealed to us that the rumored charge was surreptitiously but clandestinely filed by the Federal Government hours after the judgment of the Court of Appeal was delivered on the 13th Day of October 2022. This was even before it had received a certified true copy of the said judgment of the Court of Appeal.”

Ejiofor argued that the filing of the said charge was clearly ill-informed and ill-advised, because the Prosecutor (Federal Government), we presume and may want to believe, was not at that point in time aware of the details, full import and implication, of the well delivered judgment of the Court of Appeal, at the time of filing the said charge. “We also want to believe that this is what has led to Federal Government’s abandonment of the charge after it was hurriedly filed.”

Ejiofor said that it is pertinent to note also that the Federal Government did not take any step to either serve the charge on their Client, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, or on their erudite lead Counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, after it was filed; even till this moment.

Ejiofor declared: “This to doubly assure UMUCHINEKE that our legal team eminently led by the legal icon of our time, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, will be in court on Monday, the 14^th of November 2022, to tackle any underhand tactics or results the Federal Government may have planned to achieve by sleight of hand, with a charge which has been pronounced dead like “dodo”; and permanently buried.

He stated that people should never lose sleep over the new phantom charge, noting that by the grace of God, they are equal to the task in tackling any antics from the prosecutor.