matrixme:
Both cases are still a minus for the South East. If Ekweremadu were a Northern "juicy" senator in the eyes of the Federal Government, it might have been a big deal. It's left for your people to pray that your politicians don't Keep getting schemed out of the affairs of this country.

Which ever way you look at it, He was arrested as a senior figure in Nigeria government not southeast government. He traveled with Nigerian and not southeast passport. Even among the Igbos, he can be used to show how bad example one nigerianist Igbos are and be used to promote Biafra. Even the FG knows it sets a bad precedence, so let's not pretend otherwise.

A lot of people have not be observing Ekweremmadu's case carefully and the last may not have been heard about it.
Let me begin from the Genesis.

Nnamdi Kanu a British national and Biafran activist, was branded a terrorist, an action the UK and the rest of the international community do not recognise.

In june 2021, he was taken from a country Nigeria has refused to disclose, but Kenya and UK have both denied consent and instead acknowledged his arrest as illegal. He has been on trial since then allegedly under inhuman conditions. There have been questions and pressure from the UK to Nigeria to disclose the nature of his arrest to no avail. Infact, it became so serious that the Bristish PM had to confront Buhari over it in Rwanda and Buhari had the audacity to tell him Kanu will not be granted bail. Calls for a political solution over the issue have also been rebuffed.

Similarly, Fifth term senator and former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremmadu was arrested in the UK over allegations of organ harvesting. Before we knew about, he was already in court and DENIED BAIL. News of his arrest quickly spread in the British media and globally. A quick investigation from relevant agencies' database shows the boy is infact 21 and not a minor. The Nigerian immigration service has also officially defended the passport. Infact, it has been revealed Ekweremmadu duly notified the high commission about the donors travel. So why is UK pressing ahead with the case? The normal UK government i know would not even have charged him to court and subject him and the country to such embarrassment if they do not have something in mind. The FG may have smelt the coffee and have been following up the matter secretly. The matter is not serious enough to warrant effort the UK government is putting. On the other hand, If they pursue it diligently, Ekweremmadu won't likely go free because no Nigerian politician is innocent. Now that the senate is speaking of sending delegation to UK and using diplomatic pressure to release him (which is a political solution), Do you think the UK will yield to that without securing the release of their citizen (Nnamdi Kanu) who is also being held in Nigeria? is Nigeria willing to bear the embarrassment of ekweremmadu's trial?

Nigeria's dark secret.

Aljazeera is trying in this regard

You won't see this in the mainstream Western media.

Federal government is simply saying that Nigeria is neutral.

Ukraine will soon be in ruins. IMF will then come in with conditions that wiil make them perpetual economic slaves to the west.

FIFA now taking political sides?
I bet they don't know they just started what they can't finish.

MiamiePizza:
Like what do this people gain in lying to the public? Why not just say the truth always? Sky, Fox, BBC, CNN... Only good at show poverty in African, African migrants crossing Libya/Mediterranean and all other degrading clips of Africa.

Nawa

The truth they will never let us know is that Ukrainians are not interested in the war. The first Russian tanks rolled in from Crimea and thousands of Ukrainians were already in poland. More of their men are still leaving prompting the government to take extraordinary measure of banning men from leaving the country and even calling on foreigners to enlisted, despite load of ammunition from the west.

Disinformation!

Lol
Kosovo is to NATO/US what Luhansk and Donetsk are to Russia

How true?
Can a tractor drag an armoured tank?

The situation is very delicate. It is an undeniable fact the it's the turn of SE to produce the president. However Biafran agitation is raging currently, and non of the major contenders from the SE denounces Biafran movement the way the way FG and Northerners want. All of them believe it it caused by injustice that must be addressed. If they are denied the seat, they will also be drawn to separatism as ohaneze is already threatening.

I heard they were close to 10 policemen killed in the attack.
When will this crisis end? Won't FG dialogue? Or does the FG not care about the live of security operatives?

I was in a terminal of one of the major transport companies and watched MTV base. For hours, all they showed was money, dollars, cars, Baba God don't bless me, half naked women and absolutely meaningless and irresponsible lyrics that can only inspire teenagers to commit crime.

This people influence our youths. The way the dress, what they think etc it's also (alongside social media) put girls under pressure to do all manner of surgeries to enhance their sex appeal and attract yahoo boys.

Lalasticlala, mynd44 OAMJ4 is this opinion not front-page worthy?

ThankGodFriday:



Okay let's blame Davido for all the skull minning in YorubaLand

you can blame whoever you want but there is a strong connection between our music and rise in the mentality op wrote about.

Nothing bad ends which starts in Nigeria.

Mynd44:


Hence why this analogy is short sighted.

People can have dual nationality and it is okay

sorry, your argument of dual citizenship is not valid here since one cannot travel with two passports at the same time. Any country on whose passport one travels is the one that protects an individual. Nigeria will run into trouble the same way Kenya would run into trouble it they Kidnap Obama with US passport on foreign soil.

Mynd44:
Now read this story again but this way.

Mr Charles and John are joint owners of the phone 50-50

except that a phone can't be owned by two people

Jerryherd:
Good one, let him use his own hands, to set himself up

Bindmans filling a law suit on the process of his rendition would only open up terrorism charges against him in UK

It's going to be Kenyan government vs bindmans law firm representing Nnamdi Kanu struggling it out in the UK court

are you OK? Read again.

I know of UNCHR, I know of amnesty international, I know of AUCHR but what is International Commission on Human Rights?
Just saw it's website and it is looking like a Nigerian group.

Mynd44:

This joke needs to end.

1. According to the Nigerian evidence act (as amended) evidence gotten through illegal means can be used in court as long a such evidence is untampered with hence if Kanu's extradition is illegal, Nigerian courts don't care. As long as he is here. The Kenyan garment will never admit that he was arrested on their turf or involved. The Nigerian government will not say how he was arrested. International politics is not checkers, it is chess

2. Who made the extradition illegal? Why was Hushouppi extradited to the US without a hearing? Heck, he is not even American but when he committed crimes so strongly against America, they called for him and UAE police arrested him.

3. You guys really believe the UK is going to put mouth in this? Weird flex

Despite you post full of rhetorical questions and not actually claims, I feel compelled to say that your opinion is given from a position of ignorance and most of your assumptions are baseless.

Before you boast of "international politics" you first boast about how many super powers agree with your position on a given issue. Before PKK leader was taken from Kenya, Turkey got US, UK , EU and a lot of other countries to agree that his organisation was a terrorist organisation. US intelligence even aided Kenya in arresting him taking him to turkey.

Hushpuppi whose case you are citing was Dubai based. However, he was wanted in Europe, US and even his home country Nigeria for cybercrime when he was arrested by Dubai police for same charges. Efcc even collaborated with FBI during investigation. You can see why these extraditions were pretty simple.

Kanu's case is significantly different in the sense that none except Nigeria recognize him as a terrorist. He enters US, EU, Israel and UK freely. Heck, the Kenya from where he was taken, he entered it with a valid Visa and UK passport.

My impression is that he was meant o "disappear" in Kenya without any traces and his documents/ gadgets used to hunt members his group. But the airport scenes footage and the inability to lay hands on his documents and devices meant there would be incontrovertible evidence of his abduction, hence the 8 days detention and torture to get them.

From emmerging facts, It is clear this is a badly messed up operation, with FG forced to hide how they arrested a supposed "terrorist". It is clear that Nigeria is on her own. Also notice how foreign affairs ministry is staying out of the case.

As for UK taking action, I'm happy you put that up as a question. But be reminded that not just UK but some other state actors and lobby groups are also involved and a lot will happen as times unfold.

Are you not worried that Nigeria seems to be at stand off with their most powerful defender UK over this KANU issue?

Hmm

My fear. I laugh at those who use the idea of a possible UK collussion in Kanu's kidnap to justify the act. The much I know, the UK can be quite cunning but they can never bring themselves to a direct standoff with international law. IPOB, herdsmen banditry and killings by govt forces generate a lot of interest in the international community but no country can act against it openly because of the principle of non interference. Now that Nigeria appear to have broken same international law, interested state actors like US, Israel, EU have found an excuse, and will likely use UK at this period to execute their mission.

Another mismanaged operation by the govt.
Who advises this govt?

These has been my questions

CilicMarin:


There is no legitimacy on how you kill or arrest a Terrorist...e.g Osama bin Laden who was killed in another country...

If you need to kidnap someone back home, it means such a person is not a terrorist. Osama bin laden was the world's most wanted terrorist. He was declared a terrorist my more than 100 countries. Even US got approval from Pakistan before conducting the operations which killed him.

Unfortunately, the FG has not gotten a single country to agree that KANU is a terrorist. If it is comfirmed he was illegally brought to Nigeria, it will be Nigeria and not Kanu that violated the international law.

This is concerning because each step ever taken by this government against the agitation from the onset appear to have promoted it to the next level.

On arriving at the location where he was to collect the ‘donation’, he was arrested by that country’s security agencies and Interpol, and his extradition was expedited, the source said.

This has brought an end to the long-running episode since he left Nigeria while on bail.

His trial is expected to resume on July 26.

Stop spreading fake news. He was neither extradited nor arrested by interpol. If he was, AG would've mentioned it.

megastu:
He had a Nigeria passport. If you notice, that was deliberately mentioned.

His passport was siezed by the court in Nigeria.

LegalWolf:


Keep “supposing” brah

keep quoting me sissy

Guestlander:


I am not here to lecture you. We are here to rejoice that a notorious hate monger has been captured once again.

"Rejoicing" wasn't mentioned as the title of the thread. Go create a thread on that and quit derailing this thread.

Guestlander:


Who said the police in your own country cannot hand you over to the interpol?

You could have continued with your silly rhetorical questions. Don't make claims because you're not good at backing them up with facts.