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There’s a gang-up against Nnamdi Kanu – HURIWA

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4 years ago

June 28, 2022

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has revealed a government sanctioned gang-up against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

HURIWA’s reaction is coming on the heels of the refusal of Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja division, Her Lordship Justice Mrs. Binta Murtallah-Nyako to grant bail to Kanu.

In a statement, HURIWA said the refusal to grant Kanu bail is coming few days after President Muhammadu Buhari said Nnamdi Kanu wouldn’t be granted bail in what appears like Executive versus Judicial gang-up against the defendant.

HURIWA said as a civil Rights body, it is dismayed that the Honourable Judge of the Federal High Court did not even make reference to that extrajudicial comments of the head of another arm of government President Muhammadu Buhari that the first defendant in a suit between the Federal Government and a citizen Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wouldn’t be granted bail but she proceeded to do exactly as stated by President Muhammadu Buhari as if to say that the judiciary is subservient to the executive arm of government.

HURIWA is appealing to the judiciary to safeguard her independence to avoid encouraging Nigerians to resort to self-help measures if they perceive that the judiciary does the bidding and execute the scripts authored by politicians in the office of President Muhammadu Buhari.

In a statement by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA recalled that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is currently facing a seven-count charge, had in the application he filed through his team of lawyers led by Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, equally challenge the revocation of the bail the court earlier granted to him.

HURIWA said although it is not in her place to determine for the presiding judge how to discharge her constitutional obligations but the Rights group said the unfair treatment of Nnamdi Kanu because of where he comes from is against Section 42(1) of the Constitution which absolutely makes discrimination unacceptable and unlawful.