The British High Commission and a law firm in London, Bindmans, have sought the consent of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to take up his case.

The PUNCH gathered on Thursday that Kanu’s Nigerian lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, delivered two forms to the IPOB leader on Wednesday during a visit to the office of the Department of State Services, where he is being detained.

Ejimakor told our correspondent that the development would open up a new chapter in the trial of Kanu, adding that the Nigerian government would be served with summons to bring him to the United Kingdom, where another case would be heard over the manner of his rendition to Nigeria.

He said, “I went to visit him on Wednesday and went with two forms. One was the consular consent form that the British High Commission required that he signs to consent to consular assistance. There was also a form from his counsel in the UK. The firm is known as Bindmans, one of the largest law firms in the UK.

“The forms will open a whole new chapter of legality, including the filing of a Writ of Mandamus, against the Nigerian government in a UK court to compel it to produce Kanu, because his detention is illegal under the British law. It was an extraordinary rendition, which is an international crime by which a state kidnaps a suspect or a fugitive without the due process of law.

“They will be filing all these processes in the UK and there is a prospect of a UK court assuming universal jurisdiction or extra-territorial jurisdiction and reaching into Kenya so that they can arrest every Kenyan official, either authorised or not, and every Nigerian official involved in this case.”

The lawyer noted that the DSS collected the forms, saying they must first go through the vetting of its legal unit.
He said despite being told that he would collect them on Thursday, he had yet to be contacted by the government agency.

Ejimakor said during his three-hour meeting, the IPOB leader gave a vivid account of how the Nigerian government hired agents, who abducted and flew him into the country.

While quoting Kanu, he said the IPOB leader was blindfolded and flown on a private jet without any extradition hearing or immigration process.

He stated, “Kanu said he was flown to Abuja in a private jet on Sunday, June 27, 2021, from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, and that he was the lone passenger.

“He was blindfolded and driven to the tarmac very close to the plane without passing through the airport immigration.

“The plane departed Nairobi around 12pm and arrived in Abuja in the evening.

“Kanu was tortured and subjected to untold cruel and inhuman treatment in Kenya. He said his abductors disclosed to him that they abducted him at the behest of the Nigerian government.
“The people that abducted him said they were told by their sponsors that Kanu was a Nigerian terrorist linked to Islamic terrorists in Kenya, presumably Al-Shabab. But after several days when they discovered his true identity, they tended to treat him less badly.

“Despite that, they told him they felt committed to hand him over to those that hired them.

“According to Kanu, no warrant of arrest was shown to him or even mentioned to him. And for the eight days, he was held incommunicado, nothing of presenting him before a court or transferring him to an official detention facility was ever mentioned. He was held in a nondescript private facility and chained to a bare floor.

“Kanu was interviewed for the first time in my presence by three DSS officers. The interview was revealing as it contained certain new allegations that were never heard of before. But all the questions relate directly or indirectly to his status as the leader of IPOB.”

The counsel said despite his client’s ordeal, he was in high spirit.

https://punchng.com/britain-firm-seek-kanus-consent-to-take-over-case/

Ejiofor should collaborate with any firm that can handle this case effectively.

Nnamdi Kanu must be free!

Hope the courtyard will contain us come 26th..

I hope the lost souls of futa jalon and the efulefus in the SE,SW and SS will have the courage to masturbate on this thread.

seriously it is not easy to fight for a cause. Even the people Kanu was fighting for came out here after his arrest to type gibberish how Kanu was not a "guy man", how he take "looseguard" e.t.c..

makes me wonder how humans think

Anything for Kanu,,

Ohamadike aburo guyname.


Your struggle must not be in vain

Free MNK

Kanu is a certified bigga boy walahi. Oyibo Britain dey seek in consent first before offering their services to assist him. Choi abeg who cut Kanu soap. Nigerian Govt have exhausted all their media trial cum propaganda to tarnish Kanu ever soaring reputation but as it stands now d world has passed their verdict that d violators of d law here are the Fulani controlled FG who took their kidnapping enterprise international with their extraordinary rendition thereby being a win for Kanu that all d shady abductions, killings and kidnapping even carried out in d East and d reign of UGM might actually be traced to d Nigerian State. Congratulations to all lovers of freedom

As long as justice prevails in the end. We don't mind.
MNK has not done anything compared to the mass murderers in Aso Rock who seem to be above the law.
Yesterday alone; 1009 Boko Haram members were set free from prison and given to the Borno Govt.

Also, soldiers killed 7 innocent protesters yesterday at Dangote's sugar factory for merely exercising their rights.

Dangote has not been arrested, neither have the soldiers who killed these people been arrested.
If Dangote were to be a southerner, the reverse would have been the case.

Is the Nigerian law for southerners alone whilst northerners are above it?

Every freedom fighter and all lovers of freedom must rally round Mazi Nnamdi Kanu because a chain in his hands is a chain in us all.





We must continue.

That is why Nigeria is called a Zoo . In 21 century Nigeria is acting as if we are in 1801 . All Biafrans world wide are interested in kanus case .finance is a not a problem to execute the case . They went to another country and abducted a British citizen with out due process of extradition .It is called extra ordinary rendition .

No Nigerian should be in prison

I'll bet, this Post will never smell front page.


Nairaland and her biased and sentimental Mods

skywalker240:
I'll bet, this Post will never smell front page.


Nairaland and her biased and sentimental Mods

You got it.but if the news was about one british man speaking ill of Kanu,It would have been in front page since.


Have you see any comment from zombies here?

They and nairaland mods are same.

Buhari would have overlooked Kanu. But I see all these as an overflow of his obsession with the Igbos. Kanu has become that proverbial tsetse fly that perched on the scrotum. You have got no choice but peaceful dialogue.