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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by yungpowers(m): 7:15pm On Mar 30, 2016
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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by Chemcrown: 7:18pm On Mar 30, 2016
I thought we have Nelson Mandela in the man and he has not spent 2 decades plus like his mentor in the zoo.
If he and his co brafry had been 'technically sober' like this before, he wudn't have jump to much from one tree to another in the zoo. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by mrphysics(m): 7:19pm On Mar 30, 2016
He is hasn't seen anything. By the time Buhari is done with him, he will respell his name and that of Biafra towards Nigeria. Since Nigeria is an indivisible state under GEJ administration, it's unity now in non-negotiable.

Miss Ngene, good work you are doing.

You are the slayer of IPOB and the destroyer of Tonye Barcanister and other igbo noise makers here.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by XYZ123: 7:40pm On Mar 30, 2016
NgeneUkwenu:



Hold him well!
Lmao grin grin

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by NgeneUkwenu(f): 7:40pm On Mar 30, 2016
mulattoclaro:
Nnamdi Kanu is finished. He should be given the shock treatment every morning and night. That way he will understand. Why is he asking the British government to push for his release? He wants to escape uncooked beans right? He must continue eating uncooked beans. Where are those ipob rascals like cheruv, tonychristopher ipobdevil and co?

They are now in pdp supporting Wike and fayose! grin grin

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by CltrAltDel: 7:40pm On Mar 30, 2016
see typical IPAD man, Kanu is a fraudster......it is now everybody answer ya papa name, Britain should come to his aid.........who will come to the aid of the remaining two IPAD member in custody........We said it that Nnamadi Kanfor na 419 grin grin grin

IPAD yoot be feeling so so so.........



PAINED!!!!

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by DaBullIT(m): 7:44pm On Mar 30, 2016
Dear Nnamdi

There's 2 ways citizenship works

Renouncing

If you renounced your Nigerian citizenship and became British you may have hope

However if you did renounce and you have been using Nigerian passport, you are an alien and will be treated as such : spy, terrorist, alien, planning espionage, and that's just the surface


Maintaining dual citizenship


If you have dual citizenship ( which is rare for NG and GB) your country of birth is always first in everything

So, I don't think UK can help you

But don't lose hope yet


Sincerely


#Dabullit

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by wins18(m): 7:48pm On Mar 30, 2016
Iphones abi na Ipads be like

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by sweetgala(m): 7:52pm On Mar 30, 2016
The best the British can promise him under international agreement is to observe the application of justice in Nigeria and afterwards apply to have him serve his jail term in UK.

Nnamdi Kanu committed what is a crime with more severe punishments under british law and they'll not be applying for his pardon for a case of terrorism.

The DSS need to hurry up and conclude the case, it's going on 5 months now. They have their facts it's glaring and whatever the eventual judgement is there would be no dispute

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by Businessideas: 7:56pm On Mar 30, 2016
This would be difficult to achieve by the British government for diplomatic reasons since the case has already started.Besides, the British don't want to be seen supporting such campaigns since it's in their interest that Nigeria continue to exist as an entity.
He made his decision as a man fully convinced of his beliefs and convictions without input from the British government.My appeal to the Nigerian authority is to give him fair hearing.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by MrAdetunjiBayo: 8:08pm On Mar 30, 2016
ShegeYorubawa:
As a yoruba man who live in the north. I believe that Nnamdi Kanu is the greatest man in nigeria now the only man who will look in the face of fulanis and their zombies and tell them to go to blazes.

I wish I were an Easterner right noe, if not for them, nigeria will be a feudal Arab jungle 100% where fulanis sh1t in the necks of others. The East keeping fulani at bay since 1967 AD.

Anytime I remember Nnamdi Kanu, I bow to the organizational skills of IPOB who made PRESIDIOT DULLHARY SWEAT THROUGH HIS ANUS AT ALJAZEERA. ABEG WHO DIDN'T SEE THE SWEAT ON THE DULLARD'S FACE WHEN HE WAS AMBUSHED WITH THE BIAFRAN QUESTION? grin

MUMUHAMDO DULLHARY WILL JOIN TAYLOR IN ICC JAIL. grin



Zombies hope say i no spoil markate? grin

Chai this guy wicked.....No be small. Kikikikikikiki. Wetin Presido-Dullard and him zombies do you?

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by Mynd44: 8:10pm On Mar 30, 2016
DaBullIT:
Dear Nnamdi

There's 2 ways citizenship works

Renouncing

If you renounced your Nigerian citizenship and became British you may have hope

However if you did renounce and you have been using Nigerian passport, you are an alien and will be treated as such : spy, terrorist, alien, planning espionage, and that's just the surface


Maintaining dual citizenship


If you have dual citizenship ( which is rare for NG and GB) your country of birth is always first in everything

So, I don't think UK can help you

But don't lose hope yet


Sincerely


#Dabullit
If he renounced his citizenship today, Britain still will not speak for him reason? After the Rwandan madness, a lot of countries are careful not to be tagged as responsible for supporting things like this.

The British government will not come to the aid of a suspect who made threats against a state. It is bad publicity for them to be even seen advising him. They will simply unlook and sip lipton.

Whoever advised this young man did him a great deal of dis-service

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by BeClever: 8:17pm On Mar 30, 2016
A country of Bigots and tribalists..
A country of Criminals and their worshipers.
A country where Ngeneukwene hates NnamdiKanu for standing up for him from persecution and suffering from his Masters..

A country where Ngeneukwene, prefers going back to fish farming than CBN job..

A country where 95% of all its criminal leaders come from the a region where 98% of the children from same region goes to bed every night without a single bean seed as dinner.

A country where it's security personal are feared by her citizens more than Armed robbers.

A country where it's DSS(Demented Shoe Shinners) are personal thugs and assassins to the Presidiot leader.

A country with a wicked leader, who is certainly a wicked father and husband.

A country God has decided to punish...

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by mulattoclaro(m): 8:24pm On Mar 30, 2016
Macelliot:

Who threatened?

Obviously, not me...
Taaaa. Seize noise there. You were one of them. Whom are you deceiving?

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by gulfer: 8:25pm On Mar 30, 2016
Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi
Smart guy, i pity these two guy in my quote......He is stylishly telling them they are OYO. cool cool cool

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by mulattoclaro(m): 8:26pm On Mar 30, 2016
NgeneUkwenu:


They are now in pdp supporting Wike and fayose! grin grin
these people are bloody jokers I swear. One of the reasons I don't take them serious.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by SleekAbokii: 8:32pm On Mar 30, 2016
Mandela spent 27 years in prison and was tagged a terrorist. Today, he is well celebrated even after his death.
Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by ShegeYorubawa: 8:41pm On Mar 30, 2016
SleekAbokii:
Mandela spent 27 years in prison and was tagged a terrorist. Today, he is well celebrated even after his death.

You dey mind the zombies. They are slowly pushing Dullard-General to the Hague. They want him to smell rod in ICC sanko. grin

As far the world is concerned Kanu is called a Biafran Activist by world media like BBC, IBTimes, Aljazeera etc. He is only a 'terrorist' in the eyes of the daura-inspired Dullards and zombies and their 2 kobo blogs.
All the Anti-IPOB English in the world won't change that.
Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by Demallcrazy(m): 8:47pm On Mar 30, 2016
JustJosh20:
Hahaha... I laugh in Syntax.


i thought he was going to be like Mandela...

u forget the light situation for here...
heat wan kill dilector oo..
hope if he dies of Meningitis nobody will blame Buhari..
meanwhile. on behalf of David Cameron... I'll release u on two conditions..

1. Sing the national anthem and the pledge...


2.. campaign for APC and win all reruns for APC..

next time you'll know that Baba means Father...

in other news. . Nepa just brought light

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by SleekAbokii: 8:56pm On Mar 30, 2016
ShegeYorubawa:


You dey mind the zombies. They are slowly pushing Dullard-General to the Hague. They want him to smell rod in ICC sanko. grin

As far the world is concerned Kanu is called a Biafran Activist by world media like BBC, IBTimes, Aljazeera etc. He is only a 'terrorist' in the eyes of the daura-inspired Dullards and zombies and their 2 kobo blogs.
All the Anti-IPOB English in the world won't change that.



There's no way Buhari can escape the Hague after all the massacre under his watch.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by Longeria(m): 8:57pm On Mar 30, 2016
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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.

[b]
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.
[/b]


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

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by UmuEri(m): 8:59pm On Mar 30, 2016
And Kanu keeps on making history. While some low lifes continues to wallow in their stupidity.
Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by PenSniper: 9:01pm On Mar 30, 2016
feelamong:
Hahaha....

The prison beans don begin turn the guy belle wella!!!

Nwanne welcome to the Zoo wella!!!

Anu mpama!!!!


I beg i no fit laugh o ! This wella think. . .

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by SleekAbokii: 9:05pm On Mar 30, 2016
I trust The Hague to knack a 73 year buhari 50 years behind bars. Na wale go begin enjoy aisha wholesale. na heart attack go quick kill Buhari inside jail. That's how his first wife was fucking a general behind his back.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by PenSniper: 9:13pm On Mar 30, 2016
Macelliot:
[s][/s]
Your life on Nairaland revolve only around IPOB, Biafra, Nnamdi kanu related issue...

Meanwhile, your Oga, the Mr. Tourism, Jukeeter-in-chief has continued his Globe-touring again...


? ? ?

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by PenSniper: 9:21pm On Mar 30, 2016
Macelliot:

Nigeria will never move forward because we fail to tell ourselves the truth.
..


Is Nigeria your country ?
Did you tell him the truth when he was calling for blood ?
Did you tell him the truth when he was instigating ethnic cleansing. ?
Did you tell him the truth when he was busy making enemies of every other major tribe except the Ibo ?
Or did you mean 'truth' according to your own dictionary ?
Please tell him only lily-livered freedom fighters beg to be released, true heros don't.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by Longeria(m): 9:23pm On Mar 30, 2016
Chemcrown:
I thought we have Nelson Mandela in the man and he has not spent 2 decades plus like his mentor in the zoo.
If he and his co brafry had been 'technically sober' like this before, he wudn't have jump to much from one tree to another in the zoo. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yes, you have more than Mandela in Kanu, a man who is ready to die for what he believe in.
Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by BeClever: 9:24pm On Mar 30, 2016
Macelliot:
Nnamdi kanu remains a hero....

I have posted the letter and the detail of the letter made mockery of all their nasty amusement here..

But the Bigot of NL in other to relegate truth to the background blocked it since he was very disappointed of the the contents..

Edit this ur post since it's on the front page and copy the original letter into it so they can continue to suffer..

https://www.nairaland.com/3020108/compelling-letter-nnamdi-kanus-legal
Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by LFJ: 9:41pm On Mar 30, 2016
BeClever:
A country of Bigots ant tribalists..
A country of Criminals and their worshipers.
A country where Ngeneukwene hates NnamdiKanu for standing up for him from persecution and suffering from his Masters..

A country where Ngeneukwene, prefers going back to fish farming than CBN job..

A country where 95% of all its criminal leaders come from the a region where 98% of the children from same region goes to bed every night without a single bean seed as dinner.

A country where it's security personal are feared by her citizens more than Armed robbers.

A country where it's DSS(Demented Shoe Shinners) are personal thugs and assassins to the Presidiot leader.

A country with a wicked leader, who is certainly a wicked father and husband.

A country God has decided to punish...

All these just because your hero is locked up for his silliness. If God decided to punish Nigeria today, is you or your family have immunity against the punishment of God? This is the kind of silliness that put Kabul in trouble. I pray that your bad mouth cum silliness will not turn you to fake hero like Kanu.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by Nobody: 9:51pm On Mar 30, 2016
he surely must have learnt his lessons by now.

everybody who participated in the rally organized by ipob have all gone back to their businesses and families while he is still a tenant of the federal government of the "zoo".

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by Nobody: 9:53pm On Mar 30, 2016
This guy is getting gentle now? he will rot in detention, BIafra here we come? IPOB vandal and miscreant, rot in jail

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu Begs British Government To Push For His Release by PhockPhockMan: 9:56pm On Mar 30, 2016
Longeria:
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SEE KANU'S LETTER TO BRITAIN
[/size]


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.

[b]
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.
[/b]


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



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Wait o o, how does this letter translate into begging. So many illiterates in nairaland.


NgeneUkwenu, dia is God o o.

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