Self Determination: Malami Has Powers To Release Nnamdi Kanu Unconditionally – Lawyer, Ejimakor NOVEMBER 22 , 2021 | EASTERN PILOT Report ...
Self Determination: Malami Has Powers To Release Nnamdi Kanu Unconditionally – Lawyer, Ejimakor
NOVEMBER 22 , 2021 | EASTERN PILOT
Report By: Seun OpejobI |
Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has disclosed who has the power to release the pro-Biafra agitator. Ejimakor disclosed that the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has the power to order Kanu’s release.
He explained that Malami has the power to discontinue any legal proceedings he initiated. In a tweet, Ejimakor anchored his remark on Section 174 of the Nigerian constitution. The Special Counsel maintained that the Executive has the power to release Kanu and not the judiciary. According to Ejimakor:
“Sec. 174 of the Constitution says: ‘The Attorney General of Nigeria shall have the power to DISCONTINUE any criminal proceedings instituted by him. “The UNCONDITIONAL release of #NnamdiKanu lies with the Executive, NOT the Judiciary.”
This is coming at a time President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to consider the release of the pro-Biafra agitator. Buhari had made the promise while responding to an appeal by some Southeast leaders under the aegis of the Highly Respected Igbo Greats, led by First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi. The president had met with the Igbo leaders at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Also A pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization, Nzuko Ndigbo, has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment during the recent visit by Igbo leaders to the State House Abuja over the continued incarceration of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, at the facility of the Department of State Service (DSS). Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had remarked that he would consider the IPOB leader’s release.
Buhari made the remark during a meeting with some Southeast leaders under the aegis of Highly Respected Igbo Greats, led by First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi at the State House, Abuja. Amaechi pleaded with the president to release Kanu, rather than opt for military actions.
DAILY POST reports that the secessionist leader, Nnamdi Kanu is facing treasonable felony charges preferred against him by the federal government of Nigeria before Justice Binta Murtala Nyako-led Federal High Court in Abuja. Reacting, Nzuko Ndigbo, in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Edomobi Promise, and forwarded to DAILY POST on Sunday, noted that the President is not doing any favour to Ndigbo by the promise but doing what he is supposed to do.
The group maintained that there was no reason at all for arresting the IPOB leader in a gestapo manner and demanded for the trial of all those that abducted him from Kenya. The Nzuko Ndigbo advised against people visiting President Buhari on behalf of Ndigbo without discussing with anybody. The socio-cultural organization also noted that it is killer herdsmen, bandits and Boko Haram that should be targeted by Buhari and not Nnamdi Kanu or the Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho.
According to the Nzuko Ndigbo, “Let Buhari release and apologize to Nnamdi Kanu for unlawful kidnapping by the federal government”. Meanwhile, Pan-Nigeria Presidency of Igbo Extraction Coalition, PANPIEC, has commended igbos they have so far declared to contest in the 2023 Presidential election. The Executive Secretary of the group, Chuks Ibegbu in a statement on Sunday, noted that the coast is now getting clearer and encouraging.
The PANPIEC asked more aspirants of Igbo extraction to declare their interest soonest as Nigerians expect them to come out in readiness and zeal to be taken seriously. The group also asked all the political parties in Nigeria to zone their 2023 presidential seat to Igbo land.
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