HURIWA challenges FG to respond to Nnamdi Kanu’s family N800m allegation

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has challenged the Federal Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) to publicly address the allegation that N800 million is spent on each court appearance of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as made by his family at the weekend.

HURIWA in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko on Monday, said the loud silence from the federal government over this huge allegation made in the open by the family members of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is absolutely intolerable and unacceptable.

The human rights group said if this allegation is credible then those collecting such insane and callous amount of cash just to produce one person in court in a petrol driven vehicle within a distance of not less than 20 minutes drive from the fortified headquarters of the DSS to the Federal High Court complex at the central business district, must be made to give proper account or be prosecuted for financial crime and made to refund the cash to the TSA.

HURIWA also expressed its disappointment that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who promised to grant pardon to Nnamdi Kanu when he campaigned for the office of president in the South East has rather turned around to engage the services of one of the most feared litigation lawyers in the country: Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN) to lead the prosecution team against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“If President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is desirous of granting pardon to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and to end the heightened state of insecurity in the South East of Nigeria,  why then has the government gone ahead to hire one of the most fearsome criminal litigation lawyers in Nigeria in the person of Chief Adegboyega Awomolo,  SAN?”

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“We similarly view the decision by President Tinubu not to grant Mazi Nnamdi Kanu a political resolution of his prolonged prosecution by the Nigerian State as a Sinister plot to prolong the activities of the agents of instability and insecurity in the South East with a view to punishing the Igbo region collectively for producing insignificant votes during the 2023 presidential poll.

HURIWA recalled that the family of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, had at the weekend raised fresh concerns over his failing health.

The Rights group is therefore calling on Mr. President to order the DSS to grant Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the best medical attention that his present health condition requires to avoid any untoward development.

The family also says it would like to know those benefiting from the alleged N800 million that the Federal Government spends as the cost of bringing Kanu to court any time he is to make an appearance.

Spokesman of the family, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, in a statement on Saturday, said the family heard that the Federal Government spends N800 million each time Kanu was brought to court.