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cutelover19:
very good job by analyzing steroids

it is called anabolic steroids, dunno what u r analysing

Now I believe in d high sense of professionalism among foreign media cos they even appear to understand our problems more than us. Everything written in this piece is just d truth. Even d much hyped anti corruption fight cos of its selective template cud garner only a 'C'. Boko haram a 'B' whereas d economy scored capital 'F9'. Common registers used here like 'witch hunt', "selective prosecutions ",'budget padding ' 'sycophancy 'etc are what d zombies ll always ascribe to Ipob touts or wailers. Now dat even d Guardian UK is also wailing may be d writer was paid by Nnamdi Kalu or d PDP

Longeria:
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SEE KANU'S LETTER TO BRITAIN
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24th March, 2016.
The High Commissioner,
British High Commission, Abuja
19 Torrens Close
Maitama, Abuja.

Dear Sir,

RE: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA VS NNAMDI KANU & 2 ORS
CHARGE NO: FCT/ABJ/CR/383/15

NNAMDI KANU: A VICTIM OF TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE AND A CALL FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO BE ON THE WATCH.

We are Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the 1st Defendant in the above captioned criminal charge, hereinafter refers to as “Our Client”, and on whose authority and firm instruction, we formally bring to the attention of the British Government the deliberate design by the Nigerian Government to subvert the course of justice in the above criminal trial.

It is repeating the obvious to state that Our Client is a full British citizen, by virtue of which position he is entitled to all Rights, Privileges and Protections, guaranteed under the British Laws and conventions. We are therefore constrained in the circumstance, to formally notify the British Government vide this medium, of our well informed reservations, and apprehension, that Our Client is undergoing persecution in the charge above referred, and deliberate design by the persecutors to frustrate every effort of the Defense team aimed at giving Our Client a fair trial.

We are not under any illusion that the British Government has taken notice of the highlights in the presidential media chat granted by President Muhammed Buhari on the 30th day of December 2015. Prominent among his worrisome but most prejudicial comments in the said media chat, is his insistence, that Our Client cannot be granted bail by any Court. The President in the referenced media chat, referred to Our client as a flight risk for possessing dual citizenship. It is the position of our Law, that dual citizenship is a constitutional right of the citizens of Nigeria, clearly provided for under section 28 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended 2011. Dual citizenship is not a crime under our Law. Our reservations on the President’s comment was underpinned by the findings made in the ruling delivered on the 29th day of February 2016, by Hon. Justice John Tsoho, wherein Our Client and the two other Defendants were denied bail.

The learned Judge, in advancing his reasons for arriving at the decision, and in consistence with the direction conveyed in the aforesaid media chat, specifically referred to Our Client as a flight risk, on grounds of his dual citizenship, and on the basis of which he denied him bail. It is apposite in the circumstance to remind the British Government, that Judges of the Federal High Court of Nigeria are appointed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in line with the provisions of Section 250(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended 2011. This Section provide thus;

Section 250; APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF JUDGE AND JUDGES OF THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT 250(2)

“The appointment of a person to the office of a Judge of the Federal High Court shall be made by the President on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council.”
We therefore submit, most respectfully Sir that by virtue of the powers conferred on the President in the above cited Law, the President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammed Buhari, has overriding control over the appointment of the Federal High Court Judges. The learned trial Judge in denying Our Client bail on the 29th day of January, 2016, granted accelerated hearing of the substantive charge. Accelerated hearing ordered by the learned presiding Judge in the matter connotes total annihilation of all forms of delay in the trial intended to debilitate the tenets of fair hearing.

[b] Also, instructive to mention, that the Court is under duty to allow the Defendants unfettered access to relevant materials and facilities that will aid them in the defense of their case. This duty is not only sacrosanct and compelling, but is provided for under Chapter (iv) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as (Amended) 2011, particularly in section 36(6) (b), among the fundamental rights of the citizens. In the course of our defense, We are usually confronted with situation where we are handed the short end of the stick in the face of deliberate refusal/delay in obliging us copies of the Ruling delivered in open Court.

The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended (2011), specifically section 36(7), allows a Court or Tribunal, only seven days, in a criminal trial, to keep records of the proceedings, Rulings and Judgment delivered therein, within which, it shall be made available to the Accused person(s) or person applying through him.

It is disheartening, that our successive applications for the certified true copies of Rulings delivered by the Honourable Court, on the 9th February 2016, 19th February 2016, and 7th March 2016, have not receive any attention. Either by deliberate design or omission, the Rulings, above referred, are still being shielded from us as at today. It is more painful, when it comes to mind that these Rulings are not only fundamental but a necessity to a successful transmission of records of the Court to the Appellate Court.



The Court has always been served with copies of our Notices of Appeal, anytime an application for the certified true copy of the Ruling is submitted, which ordinarily, would have spurred it for expeditious action but the reverse is usually the case. On the face of this frustration, the defense is confronted with apparent dilemma in offering our client the best legal services he deserved, in the defense of these bogus charges preferred against him.

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The Application brought by the Federal Government of Nigeria, requesting the Court to protect the identities of the prosecution witnesses by the aid of facial masks and screens while giving evidence in the course of proceeding, was heard on the 19th day of February 2016. Upon the hearing of the aforesaid application, and our objection, the Court declined to grant the application, and consequently ordered that the hearing of the matter should be conducted in the open. Members of the public and press were also ordered by the Court to continue to participate in the proceedings.
Surprisingly, on the 7th day of March, 2016, when the trial was scheduled to commence, the Director of Public Prosecutions orally applied that the subsisting order of the Honourable Court, made on the 19th day of February, 2016, be varied. The Learned D.P.P, insisted that the prosecution witnesses have refused to attend Court to give evidence, unless their identities are shielded from the public. On the strength of the above application, and despite our vehement opposition to the application, the Honourable Court made a volte-face, and proceeded to grant their request, by varying the very order it made on the 19th day of February, 2016.
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Though we have successfully lodged an appeal against this perverse ruling of the Honourable Court, but it is now incumbent on the British Authority to turn their torchlight on the process complained of, against the obvious persecution of its own citizen. Relevant to mention that the detail accounts provided by our Client in his vicious experience in the hands of the operatives of the State Security Services while in their custody, revealed how the investigating officers boasted to him that the British Government was instrumental to his arrest and dare him to watch out for future development in the matter.
It is therefore, our humble expectation that the demonstration of palpable commitment by the British Government will to a larger extent neutralize the concerns and fears raised by the remark under reference. It is on the strength of this obvious maneuvering and deliberate design to subvert the course of justice that we most humbly request the British authority to begin a race against time, for more noticeable impact in this matter.
Attached herewith for your ease of reference, are copies of our press briefing granted on the 18th day of March 2016, Certificates of registration of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Radio Biafra respectively, in the United Kingdom Registration certificates of Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) in other countries of the world, and video clips of how the Nigeria Military personnel massacred innocent and Defenseless members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Aba-Abia State, on the 9th day of February 2016.


We shall keep you abreast of every development in this matter as we progress.

Accept the assurances of our deepest regards Sir.

Yours faithfully

FOR: I.C EJIOFOR & CO



https://www.nairaland.com/3019559/nnamdi-kanu-travesty-justice-call

Thank God for updating with d verbatim copy of d letter and I must confess dat it is either this Op is a tribal bigot or she/he seriously has congenital comprehension disorder. The sensational caption by this unrepentant Biafraphobic mammal is quite different from d content of this epic writeup by d Legal team of Kalu which am sure d FG must v been thrown into panicking mood cos of d organised presentation of d trajectory of d court case from inception to this moment and how a judge suddenly made a volte face in his own earlier ruling by also highlighting d nexus btw d President and appointment of court judges.

They are really compounding d problems of this old man. A primary one pupil knows what eating someone's vomit is but this Apc wants to keep exposing this man even when he has admitted his error. Lame I must say.

Very detailed and intelligently written.

Looks like a FP material

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This writeup is filled with innuendos, rhetorics and relatively empty vis-a-vis the response most Nigerians wud v been expecting from d Amaechi camp at this point. Till tomorrow the monorail project is a project that no sane govt will want to continue. Over 50billion naira has been expended within a distance dat will cost only N50 by Taxi. One wud v expected Amaechi to v thrown more light on d mystery movie at d Mile 1 Police station leading to d release of d Inec EO under commando-like operation and confirm or deny d generally accepted version dat d Gucci cap belonged to d State APC chairman. As per d Nysc Corp mbr (may his soul RIP), he was gunned down after his result which d Pdp won has been submitted and was returning with his colleague, d Presiding Officer 1. Amaechi wud v thrown more light too how an observer like me wud v suspected d Pdp and not d Apc in d circumstances surrounding d death of this orphan. One fact remains dat Amaechi truly worked in his first four years but abandoned governance at d altar of politics in his second time. Another truth is dat in times past Rivers election is won or lost based on d party in control of d security agencies but in this case people's dislike for Amaechi as a saboteur and some visible dividends of democracy Wike was able to put on ground made people to vote and defend their votes and this also made Wike preach free & fair election this time. Most of d Apc candidates in this re-run wud v had a better outing if not for d contagious influence of Amaechi, his loquacious personality and above all d curses heaped on him by many personalities (d clergy, traditional rulers etc). Wike was seen as a bigger Pharoah needed to tame d pharoah in Amaechi. The general economic hardship in d country under Apc govt didn't help matters too as well as their onslaught against a section of d country. Edo state Pdp might benefit from this Apc-phobia mood down here if they do dia home work well then Okorocha next.

Jesus

Just like we never asked d type of change promised during campaigns; pls Mr President do u mean positive or negative actions?

great analysis

If all d comments above me truly reflect d mindset of Nigerians then we have no need claiming to be one. Nobody is looking at d substance in d writeup but rather playing to d gallery. All u dat see the president as infallible are his greater enemies. Only time will tell.

Pathetic

Built2last:
Why are people expecting miracles when square pegs were put in round holes.

Ngige is a medical doctor- in charge of Labour
Fashola a season lawyer who has never held spanner heads power.

Amaechi, a historian abi na English he read, heads transport.

Fayemi, a political scientist was made in charge of solid minerals. ..
Dakuku's whobis totally clueless about maritime has been put in charge of NIMASA.

Some mofos will tell you he is a technocrat. .how about we put a technocratic expert there.

The consequence of all the above misplacements is that they learn on the job and steal for the next 4 years.
when I saw the placements where expertise was sacrificed for political compensations. I knew Nigeria has entered auto reverse again.



Haven said that I think It's not good for a man to talk too much.

IMO, APC talked too much during their campaigns.
They got Nigerians to believe that the last administration was grossly incompetent.

Nigerians were so engrossed in their promises that they thought that once APC takes over interlocking blocks will start coming out from the ground to cover the ground for smooth walk.

Alas, they had no plan but talk and talk is cheap.

Fashola so nicely rubbished the power sector in the last regime that he said you don't need the brain of an astronaut to make power work in months.

Buhari was seated in the town hall meeting in Lagos when he made his analysis of the power sector.

PMB was so convinced that he handed over the sector to him.

Today we hear it's vandals behind power drops

Were these vandals there when Fashola was ranting? Yes. One will think he had solutions to vandalism.

If anybody I repeat, anybody still has hope with this government. ...examine your head and wake me up in 2019.
PDP killed Nigeria in 16years but APC is here to bury it.

Dat portion 'technocratic expert' really turned me on. Dat phrase is a great one, they use d word to deceive us once they compensate politicians forgetting their are those who are professionals /experts in dat field in addition to being technocrats in their own respect. D painful part was dat d president even claimed he put square pegs in square holes.

Built2last:
Why are people expecting miracles when square pegs were put in round holes.

Ngige is a medical doctor- in charge of Labour
Fashola a season lawyer who has never held spanner heads power.

Amaechi, a historian abi na English he read, heads transport.

Fayemi, a political scientist was made in charge of solid minerals. ..
Dakuku's whobis totally clueless about maritime has been put in charge of NIMASA.

Some mofos will tell you he is a technocrat. .how about we put a technocratic expert there.

The consequence of all the above misplacements is that they learn on the job and steal for the next 4 years.
when I saw the placements where expertise was sacrificed for political compensations. I knew Nigeria has entered auto reverse again.



Haven said that I think It's not good for a man to talk too much.

IMO, APC talked too much during their campaigns.
They got Nigerians to believe that the last administration was grossly incompetent.

Nigerians were so engrossed in their promises that they thought that once APC takes over interlocking blocks will start coming out from the ground to cover the ground for smooth walk.

Alas, they had no plan but talk and talk is cheap.

Fashola so nicely rubbished the power sector in the last regime that he said you don't need the brain of an astronaut to make power work in months.

Buhari was seated in the town hall meeting in Lagos when he made his analysis of the power sector.

PMB was so convinced that he handed over the sector to him.

Today we hear it's vandals behind power drops

Were these vandals there when Fashola was ranting? Yes. One will think he had solutions to vandalism.

If anybody I repeat, anybody still has hope with this government. ...examine your head and wake me up in 2019.
PDP killed Nigeria in 16years but APC is here to bury it.

Dat portion 'technocratic expert' really turned me on. Dat phrase is a great one, they use d word to deceive us once they compensate politicians forgetting their are those who are professionals /experts in dat field in addition to being technocrats in their own respect.

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I just hope devine wisdom is called into play cos with d logic for and against this devaluation no one actually knows which side is saying d truth. My only support for d President stand is cos TB Joshua had earlier posited it to be a good idea.

zik4ever:
For those who know the inside gist of what really transpired, it was a bad case! Both political parties (and some of their senior leaders) would have been implicated if a very thorough and independent investigation was conducted. If they have been released, then it was a "political solution". Before you comment, go and find out what really happened at the Ikwerre LGA collation centre, who attacked election officials after failing to compromise them, what was the role of some security officials, who stole original result sheets and who attacked the convoy escorting the results from Isiokpo to Port Harcourt? Left for me ALL culprits (both APC and PDP involved in the whole Rivers election saga) should have been diligently prosecuted but the powers that be, including security agencies know more than is said on Nairaland! May we be delivered from ungodly politicians (irrespective of party) including those who have deceived some Nairalanders to insult each other and even act as their e-warriors whereas the bottom line is that they don't really care about us including you who is their staunch supporter!

this is a very intelligent analysis. u are really on ground

Next will now be d prosecution of Dakuku for d murder of d aide to d CoS to Wike.

And some brainwashed and deluded ones will come here and refer d Ipob struggle as toutish. Every line written by this Ipob spokesman is as powerful as his surname and can only come from an intelligentsia group who understands d aphorism of d pen being mightier than d sword. This Fulani herdsmen menace ravaging all parts of d country and d obvious mute mode of d FG shows some level of complicity traceable to d fact dat both Buhari and his key lieutenants in d security hierarchy are of Fulani descendants. Now dat d President has given a timeline for d nomadic lifestyle to be restricted within a grazing area and with d herdsmen boasting that nobody can deny them their right of free wandering; the battle line is drawn for d govt to show a strong character to absolve herself of culpability. The last time I checked d only place where animals are treated with such pampering that d death of an animal is exalted to such a high crescendo is in a zoo. When d herdsmen kill villagers in retaliation for d death of their cattles then calling this contraption a zoo becomes very apt. Until most SE govs and by extension Nigerian politicians are given d Chatham House treatment as recently meted out to Okorocha then this nonsense will continue. Since his shameful return from London, has anyone heared Okorocha make all those his biafraphobic statements as his brain has been reformatted to default settings which even forced his govt to celebrate Easter at Assumpta Cathedral Owerri though I doubt how far dat can go in salvaging his battered personality . How can fake soldiers abduct indigenous people and take them to fake Zone 9 police Umuahia and then taken to fake court if not dat d country is herself fake. Punch lines like this which are oftentimes hard truth has been d trademark of Mr Nnamdi Kalu via Radio Biafra and this is d only reason (emphasis only) d state wants him out.

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how time flies. Nxt ll be d anniversary of his inauguration

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iambrafia231:
PDP mind your business!!!
PDP have more serious issues to deal with than meddling in APC.

fuel scarcity is what is being discussed and d last time I chkd it is a natnl problem not an Apc affair.

This looks like d Pdp rejecting Tinubu's wailing form application.

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oyinkinola:
very simple, we must turn back to the rule of community...the family, community leaders and tradition leaders they can handle the problems better than poliical leaders!

its obvious u never even realised all I did was correcting all u poorly wrote earlier and presenting it how u cud v written it. If u want another set of correction session then we need to discuss but u are obviously embarrassing ur parents with ur intransigent mindset. He who knows not, knows he knows not but don't want to know is a f***

great

good one