The leadership of
Intersociety has been totally
vindicated over its last night
(20th October 2015) statement
exposing flaws inherent in the
widely reported news of Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu’s conditional bail
and continued detention by the
Department of the State Security
Services (DSS). The information
about the conditional bail was
half-baked and reportorially
anomalous. For example, the
following questions were not
answered in the said media
report:Was Nnamdi Kanu
arraigned before a named Chief
Magistrate Court or charged
before a named Federal or FCT
High Court? If he was so
arraigned or charged, what
charges were preferred against
him? Who stood as prosecution
team, AGF or DSS legal
department? Were the charges
bailable if he was arraigned
before a Magistrate Court? Who
was the presiding authority,
Chief Magistrate or a Judge? Are
the charges against him, if any,
known to the 1999 Constitution
or its subsidiary criminal laws,
with their penalties clearly
defined in written law? What
date is the returned or
adjourned date? Was Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu represented by
any legal team and what are
the identities of members of his
legal team, if any?
However, at 7:15am this morning
(21st October 2015), Intersociety
received a mail from Barr Vincent
Egechukwu Obetta, who is
Counsel to detained Biafran self
determination activist;
acknowledging that other
teeming Nigerians shared same
sentiments and questions raised
in our referenced statement. He
answered our probing questions
as follows:
(1) That Citizen Nnamdi Kanu of
Radio Biafra & IPOB was
arraigned before the Abuja
Municipal Magistrate Court,
Wuse Zone 2; on 19th October
2015 and granted bail. (2) That
he was granted bail with
stringent conditions including
getting a civil servant of Grade
Level 16 that has a landed
property within Abuja
metropolis and in the sum of
N10million as his bail surety. (3)
That Citizen Nnamdi Kanu was
charged with following alleged
misdemeanor offenses:
Criminal Conspiracy, Managing&
Belonging to Unlawful Society
and Criminal Intimidation
contrary to Sections 97, 97b
and 397 of the Penal Code
(applicable in Northern
Nigeria). (4) That the matter
was adjourned to 18th of
November 2015 for trial. (5)
That processes to fulfill the
deliberate and stringent bail
conditions have since
commenced but could not be
completed before the close of
work yesterday (20-102015)
and would continue today
(21-10-2015).
We condemn in its totality the
stringent bail conditions
imposed upon the bail granted
to Citizen Nnamdi Kanu by the
Presiding Magistrate of the Abuja
Municipal Magistrate Court. It is
an elementary knowledge in law
and criminal justice system in
Nigeria that there are categories
of criminal offenses that can be
tried by the Magistrate Courts or
their equivalents and the High
Courts. They are simple offenses
with maximum of six months
imprisonment; misdemeanor
offenses with minimum of six
months (as case may be) and
maximum not exceeding three
years imprisonment; and
felonious offenses with three
years as minimum and capital
punishments (i.e. death penalty
or life imprisonment) as
maximum. In the trial jurisdiction
categorization, Magistrate Courts
are empowered with trial
competence in simple offenses
and misdemeanors and a
number of felonies.
The Magistrate Courts (with their
various classification) are
forbidden from prosecuting
certain categories of felonious
offenses such as treason,
treasonable felony, murder,
manslaughter, kidnapping,
armed robbery, sedition, rape,
terrorism, etc. Following the
foregoing, therefore, it is totally
condemnable for the Presiding
Magistrate to have handed down
such stringent bail conditions
over misdemeanor allegations
that are softly bailable. We
further hold that the Presiding
Magistrate is a parasitic and
arrange Magistrate possibly
remote-controlled by desperate
and primordial elements within
the Federal Executive Arm and its
security establishment so as to
keep Citizen Nnamdi Kanu in
perpetual confinement using
manipulated judicial process as
its escape route.
To attach such stringent bail
conditions in alleged offenses
that are clearly misdemeanor and
softly bailable is a clearly sign of
executive jittery and undeniably
persecutorial. To ask a civil
servant in Grade Level 16 with a
landed property within Abuja
metropolis to stand for Citizen
Nnamdi Kalu as a bail surety, is
very deliberate and another way
of applying Decree 2 of 1984,
which the present President
maximally applied then to mass-
jail Nigerians without limitations.
The possibility of getting a
serving civil servant of Grade
Level 16 working for the same
Federal Government may most
likely be a suicide mission; not to
talk of the attached condition
that such civil servant must have
a landed property within Abuja
metropolis.
Our questions are: What is the
cost of an empty plot of land
within Abuja metropolis? What
is the current market value or
worth of a landed property
within Abuja metropolis and
can it be afforded by a serving
civil servant of Grade Level 16
without bureaucratic theft?
How much is the official take
home monthly salary of a
Federal civil servant of Grade
Level 16 in Nigeria? Even if
obtained through the country’s
rampant bureaucratic
corruption, can such civil
servant boldly and dangerously
take the risk? Why must a N10
million bond surety be further
added in Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s
bail conditions over
misdemeanor allegations that
are softly bailable with lighter
sentencing on conviction?
While we commend Citizen
Kanu’s lawyer (Barr Vincent
Egechukwu Obetta) for his
courage and boldness in
defending the detained self
determination activist as well as
his prompt response and
clarifications to our reservations
trailing his conditional bail and
continued detention; we also
advise that a return with a
motion should be made to the
same Abuja Municipal Magistrate
for immediate variation and
lowering of the harsh bail
conditions so given. Where the
possibility of meeting up with
bail conditions clearly becomes
unachievable both in practical
aspect and before the Magistrate
Court, an appeal should be
effected at the High Court for
such stringent bail conditions to
be quashed or lowered.
[ Unanswered Questions
Trailing Nnamdi Kanu’s
Reported Bail & Continued
Detention ]
(Intersociety (Nigeria), 20th
October 2015)-The leadership of
Intersociety is worried over the
sketchy situation on the ground
pertaining to a conditional bail
purportedly given yesterday
(19th October 2015) to Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu of the Radio Biafra,
which was widely reported in
the print and online media
within and outside Nigeria. The
widely publicized news of
(sketchy) conditional bail, under
reference, is by all intents and
purposes, unreliable, sketchy and
complicated. The legal and media
angles to the said conditional bail
are totally clothed with legal
quackery and media mediocrity.
For example, the following
questions were not answered in
the referenced media report:
Was Nnamdi Kanu arraigned
before a named Chief Magistrate
Court or charged before a named
Federal or FCT High Court? If he
was so arraigned or charged,
what charges were preferred
against him? Who stood as
prosecution team, AGF or DSS
legal department? Were the
charges bailable if he was
arraigned before a Magistrate
Court? Who was the presiding
authority, Chief Magistrate or a
Judge? Are the charges against
him, if any, known to the 1999
Constitution or its subsidiary
criminal laws, with their penalties
clearly defined in written law?
What date is the returned or
adjourned date? Was Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu represented by any
legal team and what are the
identities of members of his legal
team, if any?
Apart from the clear absence of
the foregoing ingredients in the
said wide statement of his bail,
our update investigation still
indicates that Citizen Kanu was
still in the custody of the DSS as
at 7pm this evening (20th
October 2015). Pieces of
information obtained by
Intersociety this evening from
the top hierarchy of the
Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) including Office of
Coordinator of Coordinators and
Directorate of the State in UK and
USA clearly show that Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu is yet to be set free
or released from the DSS
dudgeon. In other words, he is
still in detention as we write.
We advise the media
practitioners and legal team
handling and following the
matter under reference to always
cross-check their facts and do a
thorough job before rushing to
the press. This type of half baked
and contradictory information
can have fatal effects on the
detained Biafran self
determination activist. Criminal
and hired elements within State
security organization can
perfectly silence Citizen Kanu
following this sort of confused
and contradictory report and
smartly exonerate the State
Security agencies from any
traceable culpability. As we
earlier demanded, Citizen Nnamdi
Kanu must be charged to court
of superior records or competent
jurisdiction strictly within
constitutionally or statutorily
grounded offenses and clearly
defined and written penalties or
be released unconditionally and
immediately.
Signed:
Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board
Chairman
International Society for Civil
Liberties & the Rule of Law
(Intersociety)

SOURCE: http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/Masterweb/breakingnews-211015-true-position-nnamdi-kanu’s-conditional-bail-continued-detention-another

Buhari, d Almighty God and d international community is watching u.

He who laugh last will surely hv d best laugh.

Biafrans will laugh last.

I will say it once more...Buhari is a He-goat of the highest order. He should remember the day of reckoning

BUHARI IS A LIAR FOR TELLING US THAT HE HAS BEEN RELEASED, HE NEED TO KNOW THAT WE ARE NO LONGER IN THE DARK AGES .

BY THE TIME HE LEADS NIGERIA TO ANARCH WITH THE NIGERIAN STATE AND CHAOS ON THE ONE SIDE, AND THE UNITED NATION AND THE
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA ON THE OTHER SIDE IT SHALL BE TO LATE.

Zoo

One thing is for certain, Biafra has never been heard of like this ever since the civil war.

Bravo to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu!!
If u can't die for what u believe in then its not worth believing..

LastSurvivor:
One thing is for certain, Biafra has never been heard of like this ever since the civil war.

Bravo to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu!!
If u can't die for what u believe in then its not worth believing..

look @ them..Pharisees! Who sings your praise during d day but deny u @ nite..
...Do u bliv in Biafra If yes, then go and die for it...
Was SE as a geo-political zone better under d last admin..infrastructure-wise?? Why has dis cry 4 biafra regurgitated after may 29th 2015...
It's abt 'National cake'...and nothing more

LouisVanGaal:
look @ them..Pharisees! Who sings your praise during d day but deny u @ nite..
...Do u bliv in Biafra If yes, then go and die for it...
Was SE as a geo-political zone better under d last admin..infrastructure-wise?? Why has dis cry 4 biafra regurgitated after may 29th 2015...
It's abt 'National cake'...and nothing more

U sound so pained about this Biafra..
Rat poison will be perfect for u..

LastSurvivor:


U sound so pained about this Biafra..
Rat poison will be perfect for u..

that's because it's NOT genuine! Biafra would come, as well as other group having their way..but it has to come naturally..
Therefore..I piss on your head!

lols Nnamdi Kunu no go show Nigeria again no be only biafla na bianunu

LouisVanGaal:
that's because it's NOT genuine! Biafra would come, as well as other group having their way..but it has to come naturally..
Therefore..I piss on your head!

U sound more pained now than bfor

Enimies of Nigeria will die at last, be it bokoharrams Biafra, Ipob and nnmadi.

Drchristian:
Enimies of Nigeria will die at last, be it bokoharrams Biafra, Ipob and nnmadi.

lol cry me a river..

Is this news or a compliant?
To answer if a level16 civil servant can open a landed property in Abuja without being corrupt? Yes they can n they have..Even junior civil servants got houses through the monetization policy of the Obasanjo government. Besides civil servants don't have to be corrupt to own things.

He should learn how to choose the battles he would fight.

Biafra or nothing.

release NNAMDI BUHARI.



LIBERATE YOUR SELF BUHARI . FOR REAL BUHARI .