₦airaland Forum

The Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide Youth Wing, has described the continued trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) by the Nigerian Government, as a collective trial of the people of southeastern Nigeria (Ndigbo).

The organisation made the assertion in a statement signed and made available to journalists in Awka on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mazi Chika Art Adiele, while reacting to the jurisdiction of Kanu’s alleged terrorism case when he reappeared before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja for the resumed hearing of the IPOB leader’s protracted case.

It was gathered that despite Kanu’s insistence that Justice Nyako has no jurisdiction over his case, the judge adjourned the matter indefinitely.

Recall that Kanu was brought into Nigeria in June 2021 and has since been detained and tried for alleged terrorism. His trial was stalled after Justice Nyako recused herself from the case following an oral application by the defendant on 24 September 2024.

Reacting further, the organisation said, “Our attention was yet again drawn over another charade at the instance of one Hon. Justice Binta Nyako, who to all intents and purposes is bent on subjugating Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to perpetual trial without any form of justice.

“It is an absurdity that the rule of law is punctured in the most brazen manner by this dishonourable judge who obviously is playing a prepared script.

“As a people, we strongly feel that Justice Binta Nyako, by her actions and inactions, has deployed warped logic to obfuscate the irrefutable fact that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a full-blooded citizen of Nigeria and his rights are inalienable.

“We cannot fathom why she is deliberately persecuting Mazi Nnamdi Kanu when the facts are before the law, thereby deploying subterfuge, self-hatred, and destructive tendencies just to feed her ego.

“However, we are here to remind her that justice delayed is justice denied and so we demand that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is released without further delay and full compensation paid to him.

Anything short of this will leave us in the belief that this is a collective trial of Ndigbo.

Igbo youths are a peace-loving people and Justice Binta Nyako must not take our quest for the rule of law as a sign of weakness. Let justice prevail!”, the statement concluded.

duro4chang:
Kikikikikkikikikiki?

beerfraud:
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aswani:
This is not true, I guess you can take your Ohaneze army to go and break him out then.

Were Ndigbo collectively telling themselves to destroy Lagos or kill Fulani people (knowing how many Ndigbo live in ala North) or destroy Yoruba based churches?

Miramonica:
stop being stupid and mischievous at the same time.

If Igboho can be released, then MNK must be released too because they both committed similar offense. It obvious FG has no case against this man, the just want to keep him there for no reason, and we igbos will never accept that.

The planet is listening and the World is watching.

The evil you fail to condemn today might destroy you tomorrow. The judge is obviously biased and acting an already prepared script.

But this is a useless and hopeless country with no rule of law.

Miramonica:
stop being stupid and mischievous at the same time.

If Igboho can be released, then MNK must be released too because they both committed similar offense. It obvious FG has no case against this man, the just want to keep him there for no reason, and we igbos will never accept that.

The planet is listening and the World is watching.

The evil you fail to condemn today might destroy you tomorrow. The judge is obviously biased and acting an already prepared script.

But this is a useless and hopeless country with no rule of law.

helinues:
But you have not been incarcerated for ordinary a month now

aswani:
This is not true, I guess you can take your Ohaneze army to go and break him out then.

Were Ndigbo collectively telling themselves to destroy Lagos or kill Fulani people (knowing how many Ndigbo live in ala North) or destroy Yoruba based churches?

LegendHero:
Nnamdi Kanu is a certified terrorists as proclaimed by the court.

The court should immediately sentence him to where terror kingpins are sent internationally.

LegendHero:
Nnamdi Kanu is a certified terrorists as proclaimed by the court.

The court should immediately sentence him to where terror kingpins are sent internationally.

sirblend:
It's not a collective trial of Ndigbo...


When Nnamdi Kanu was preaching hate and violence I personally warned him and his supporters.....

They even killed Dr. Chike Akunyili the husband to Dora Akunyili


Whatever calamity Nnamdi Kanu is facing presently, he brought it upon himself...

beerfraud:
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MadamExcellency:
This is an undeniable reality.

The grounds for the arrest and the designation of IPOB were established by the Igbo Governors and Ọhaneze Ndigbo in a communiqué, which the Attorney General referenced within 24 hours as justification for banning IPOB. In light of the subsequent counter-communiqué calling for his release, any failure by the Federal Government to grant freedom would be viewed as a prosecution of the Igbo people and an act of collective punishment.