• Its quite touching reading his words – open letter by Nnamdi Kanu.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has vowed to spend the rest of his live in detention, giving conditions under which he would cooperate in the ongoing trial.
According to him, the reason the Federal Government is forcing his trial on Justice Binta Nyako is simply because she is known to be corrupt.
Recall that the Biafra activist demanded in 2024 that Nyako should recuse herself from his case. The woman obeyed and so recused herself. But in a surprising twist, she sent notice to Kanu last week, mandating him to appear before her at Federal High Court Abuja last Monday.
Chief Judge of the High Court, John Tsoho, had insisted that Nyako handle Kanu’s case and so reassign it to her.
Although Kanu appeared before her, he insisted that he wouldn’t subject himself to trial under her. Reacting, adjourned the trial indefinitely.
In the open letter Kanu signed himself, he claimed that Federal Government is deliberately keeping away his case from judges and justices whom it know would say the truth that could further embarrass the government.
“In a judgment entered on 1st March 2017, the Federal High Court Abuja ruled that the ‘IPOB is not an unlawful group'”, Kanu said as he cited various instances where different courts had ruled against the Federal Government. But each time, Nigerian government always flagrantly upturn those rulings for no reason.
Also on 26th October 2022, a Federal High Court ruled that the manner on which Nigerian government rearrested Nnamdi Kanu in Kenya was in violation of both international and state’s laws.
It proceeded to condemned the government for subjecting the IPOB leader to inhuman treatment, and concluded that the Federal Government apologize to the Nnamdi Kanu.
But it was the Appeal Court ruling of October 13, 2022 that was most embarrassing of them all. The court didn’t just absolve Kanu of all charges, discharging and acquitting him; but it went ahead to condemned the “executive lawlessness”.
Citing all these in the letter, Kanu concluded he was, therefore, prepared to spend the rest of his life in detention if it would take that long before an impartial judge could be found to handle his trial.
“Be that as it may, if it will take the rest of my life in detention to produce me before a proper and impartial court, so be it,” he concluded.
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