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Biafra: FG Urges ECOWAS Court to Dismiss Kanu's Trial.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has told the ECOWAS community court sitting in Abuja to hands off a matter brought before it by the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, over his continued detention and trial.
The government accused Kanu of threatening the peaceful co-existence of the country.

It also noted that the sub-regional court lacked, “the requisite jurisdiction” to hear and determine the matter before it.


The FG also asked the court to immediately dismiss and/or strike out the action for want of jurisdiction, “stemming from incompetency in initiating the application against the defendants.”

The government noted that instead of waiting for conclusion of his application before the Nigerian Domestic Court of Appeal on his bail, the plaintiff proceeded to the ECOWAS court, a move it stated, amounted to, “an abuse of court process or subjecting the Nigerian law to ridicule.

Faulting the inclusion of the Attorney General of the Federation and the Director General of State Security Service as defendants in the suit, the government stated that in the context and framework of ECOWAS, only member states and community institutions can be sued before the sub-regional court for alleged human rights violation.

It submitted that the court has no jurisdiction over the two defendants because they, “are neither member -states or community institutions of ECOWAS and therefore, not amenable to the jurisdiction of the community court of justice”.


SOURCE: http://mynaijainfo.com/2016/10/biafra-fg-urges-ecowas-court-dismiss-kanu-trial/

FG should go to court & present their argument and stop running away from Ecowas court.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44,

The Mandella of IPOD and Dilector will rotten in jail !!!

watchout for peeps with this kinda head as they masturbate over fake news

Old news. The case is still with the Ecowas Court.

Buhari has been under the trouble he caused for himself when he took on a much bigger Nnamdi Kanu.

Stale news...

The case heard the first hearing today...

Fg should swallow the humble pie.

Eastactivist:
Stale news...

The case heard the first hearing today...

Fg should swallow the humble pie.

The problem with Nigeria is that some ppl still think they can act military dictator in a civilian regime. Nnamdi Kanu has Buhari at his shrunken balls. This guy knows how to stoop low to conquer.

even yorubas now like biafra.

they won't like this news. what right does ECOWAS court have in deciding a case of a group's succession in Nigeria.

#am having this feeling that the FG is suspecting the ECOWAS court because of the Dasuki judgment the Igbo judge gave.

old news

CoolFreeday:
they won't like this news. what right does ECOWAS court have in deciding a case of a group's succession in Nigeria.

#am having this feeling that the FG is suspecting the ECOWAS court because of the Dasuki judgment the Igbo judge gave.

Is a stale news bro... The news is old for the benefit of your poor understanding.

But why specifically telling us is an Igbo judge?
Even buhari pilot is an Igbo man
His spokeswoman is an Igbo woman
And many others...

Igbos are great and am proud to see my brother as the judge handling the cases, I believe he will be fair and void of bias.

CoolFreeday:
they won't like this news. what right does ECOWAS court have in deciding a case of a group's succession in Nigeria.

#am having this feeling that the FG is suspecting the ECOWAS court because of the Dasuki judgment the Igbo judge gave.

First this is a stale application that has long been overruled by the court. Secondly, the matter before the court is strictly for the enforcement of his fundamental rights which the ECOWAS Court has jurisdiction to hear and adjudicate upon. It will not go into the substance of the charges of alleged treason against him.

Try acquiring and applying sound knowledge please.

Ok!
How on earth is this present administration dark-blind to any truth?
When you biase the court proceedings and influence judgement, what do you expect from a defendant like Dasuki and Nnamdi Kalu...
FG knows that the Dasuki case is the test of litmus to that of Nnamdi Kalu... Nnamdi's legal knowledge will lead to the fall of this government... He is in their oesophagus which the Fed doesn't know if throwing off or swallowing is better...
The more he is held against his will the more the Fed will sink because after several absence from the Fed, a ruling must be passed and the defendant will be advised to seek justice at a court of higher jurisdiction which we know is AU and if they still fail to do the positive then UN/ICC awaits... The truth is that the higher this case goes the more the rot of this administration and the personal life of GMB instead PMB is exposed.
The Fed can't get judges like J. Tsoho there so the cold is on their spine and as chill and pricking like an ice-spike on the skin.
Anyway they do this, the hidden-confide stench of this Fed is still to be aired, don't worry, we will all close our nostrils and fan for healthy air...

Wasting their time with a toothless bull court, which can only bark to give consolation to IPOB, but can't enforce it and Nigeria WILLLLL never obey ECOWAS'S court rulings.

Why would FG run away from a court if they have nothing to hide


He's a West African, you signed into the ECOWAS charter of rights, he thinks you've abused his rights and doesn't have confidence in your domestic courts, and so has appealed to the ECOWAS court.

Is it a difficult matter Go there and argue your detention of the fellow!

Even in the bible, the accusers of Paul followed him to Caeser when he appealed to Caeser, they didn't ask Caeser to look the other way!

Treason Trial of Nigerians in Nigeria is ultra vires Ecowas Court. Ecowas Court is just playing to the Gallery.

the Amnesty International, AI, has condemned the spate ofarrests, detention of journalists and bloggers, as well as the security forces’ violent disruption of peaceful protests.It said such act underscored how the Nigerian government appeared determined to crush dissent and suffocate freedom of expression.The rights body on Wednesday called on‎ the authorities toensure the rights of Nigerians to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, as guaranteed by international human rights law and the Nigerian Constitution.“The escalation in the intimidation of journalists and bloggers over recent months seems to be little more than abarefaced attempt by the Nigerian government to muzzle dissenting voices in the country,” said Makmid Kamara, Interim Country Director at Amnesty International Nigeria.“Alongside the security forces’ violent assault on peaceful protesters, this crackdown constitutes a growing threat to human rights enshrined in international law and the Nigerian constitution”, it stated.On violent repression of protests, AI recalled that on 22 September police blocked a peaceful protest bymembers of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN)in the capital Abuja.Get Bigger Manhood and Last 25minutes During Sex using this Safe, Natural solution. Click Here!“The demonstration called for the release of their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Zakzaky, who has been in detention without trial since December 2015. Police fired tear gas canisters to disperse the peaceful protest, resulting in some minor injuries.“About two weeks earlier, on 6 September, police stopped members of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement gathering to march to Aso Rock Presidential Villa to demand that thegovernment do more to secure the release of Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram over two years ago.“The police had been duly notified of the protest march. Since the abduction of the Chibok girls in April 2014, the movement has been gathering peacefully at Unity Fountain, where recently there has been a continuing police presence apparently aimed at preventing any form of civil assembly.“Scores of supporters of Biafran independence are in detention – many of them since late January – for attempting to hold or participating in peaceful assemblies.On several occasions security forces have used excessive force against pro-Biafran activists who have attended protest marches across south-eastern Nigeria, or who have attempted to do so.“Amnesty International has documented cases of arrest, enforced disappearance, and often killing of supporters and members of various pro-Biafran groups in the region.”On intimidation and arrests of journalists and bloggers and subsequent detention without trial, AI, in the statement issued by its Media Manager in Nigeria, also recalled that “In the first week of September the publisher Emenike Iroegbu was arrested in the presence of his familyover alleged defamation.“In August, Abubakar Usman, a prominent blogger,was dragged from his home by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).The anti-graft agency claimed that he was detained for activities that contravened the Cyber Crimes Act even though EFCC couldnot point out the provisions of the Act the blogger contravened.“Across Nigeria people, especially journalists and bloggers, are being arrested merely for expressing critical opinions on both conventional and social media platforms. One recent example is the detention of Jamil Mabai, accused of posting comments on Facebook and Twitter critical of the Katsina state government.“Also, on 5 September, Ahmed Salkida, a Nigerian journalist based in the United Arab Emirates was declared wanted by the military and later arrested by the state security services on arrival in Nigeria. He was among threepeople arrested and briefly detained for alleged links to Boko Haram and for facilitating the release of a Boko Haram video on the abducted Chibok girls.“Taken together, these are worrying signs of growing violations of the rights of people in Nigeria to peacefully assemble freely and express their views without the fear of being detained or harassed,” said Makmid Kamara.“Amnesty International Nigeria is therefore calling on the Nigerian government to comply with its obligations under international human rights law and the fundamental rightsprovisions in the Nigerian Constitution which guarantee freedom of peaceful assembly and expression. Everyone must be able to express his or her opinion, including through peaceful protest.”

hmm i'm speechless

orunto27:
Treason Trial of Nigerians in Nigeria is ultra vires Ecowas Court. Ecowas Court is just playing to the Gallery.

Try reading up on the details of the case before the ECOWAS Court. It has nothing to do with his trial for alleged treason same way the judgment in favour of Dasuki had nothing to do with the $2.1 billion arms deal saga. It's strictly on d enforcement of human rights which the court has jurisdiction to entertain. You might as well read up on d law creating d Court and its jurisdiction which Nigeria is of course signatory to.

Ecowas has no power in our constitution,just a useless community

Who will help Ecowas or Ecomog, to enforce their useless judgement?

Bunch of jokers, just like gullible ipods and wailers.

biafran1stson:
FG should go to court & present their argument and stop running away from Ecowas court.

Ecowas court is ridiculing itself. It's meant for arbitration among member states or communities that belong to the member states. It doesn't have its own police, prison, and doesn't become a court of coordinate jurisdiction.In fact, it's completely laughable that the court will entertain a case outside its purview or a case already in court in any of its member states.
Nigeria may soon withdraw herself from the memorandum that set it up if it keeps going out of its jurisdiction.

kenny987:
First this is a stale application that has long been overruled by the court. Secondly, the matter before the court is strictly for the enforcement of his fundamental rights which the ECOWAS Court has jurisdiction to hear and adjudicate upon. It will not go into the substance of the charges of alleged treason against him.

Try acquiring and applying sound knowledge please.

If you've acquired half of mine, Nigeria would've been better for it, you wouldn't be saying somethings you say and you wouldn't be doing some things you do.

#Mr. knowledgeable..

Eastactivist:
Is a stale news bro... The news is old for the benefit of your poor understanding.

But why specifically telling us is an Igbo judge?
Even buhari pilot is an Igbo man
His spokeswoman is an Igbo woman
And many others...

Igbos are great and am proud to see my brother as the judge handling the cases, I believe he will be fair and void of bias.

Yes, igbo people are great, industrious, and am happy to have many of them as friends.
I post that reply because that's what you guys want to hear. If you know he has so many Igbo brains around him, why the so much hatred and why say that he doesn't like Igbo people.

#Contradicting yourself

HOW PDP THIEVES USED NNAMDI KANU AGAINST IGBO STATES (PART 2)
Owing to illiteracy,nymphomania and megalomania,Nnamdi's choice as the driver of PDP's Boko HARAM of the South East has been an undiluted disaster which has led to greater losses for the satanic party of economic pirates.
Kanu has no ideology, training, nor humanness, so he couldn't articulate a secession master plan. What Kanu lacks in intelligence he compensates with crudity ,bestiality and barbarity. Kanu sees the Biafra lie as a business and Ipob members as tool of trade.
Kanu encourages,gossips,conjectures,lies and hate for education. This is why most Ipobs are STARK ILLITERATES. Even undergraduates who listen to Kanu's radio suddenly become mentally dull.
Kanu preaches disrespect for elders. He CURSED the Late AZIKIWE and allegedly promised to exhume his skeletal remains,burn it and use the ashes to drink tea. He abused Ukpabi Asika and other elders in Igboland. Taking a cue,his cultists fans and the innocent victims of his accursed radio have been abusing their parents,beating priests and reportedly raping women.
Kanu told his teenage followers to fight soldiers, promising that Mr Abiama , his god will make them impenetrable to bullets. They obeyed and scores of Igbos boys were killed. Kanu then boasted he has sacrificed them to OKIKE.
Before his arrest, KANU -who had no source of livelihood or even a school certificate - had become a mult millionaire, sex maniac. He camped in Lagos hotels days on end indulging in sex orgies with whores.
To date,Kanu has not helped a single Igbo man,woman or child, but sucks the ignorant of their hard earned money. He doesn't care about Igbos. When Igbo drug couriers were condemned to death in Indonesia,Kanu said nothing. This is one more evidence that Kanu sees Igbos merely as meal ticket and footstool.

Jonathan was an he goat for not jailing buhari when buhari made reckless statement during 2011 election that caused the death of thousands of lifes. he would have been tried for murderer and sentence to life imprisonment before now. buhari cannot escape jail trust me. Obama is the one shielding buhari and very soon Obama is leaving office and the USA is a prostitute and bid for her interest. buhari think he will not be betrayed by the USA let him continue, he already had case to answer which is still pending the zakyzaky and ipob killing, the ICC will open all these case when he fall out from favor. there is room for we the south to renegotiate with the new USA President of America to find our way out from this zoo. let him buhari enjoy it now while it last. he had succeeded in dividing the country. to islamized Nigeria is impossible he shouldn't even think about it. the Muslim brotherhood want to use Nigeria as a testing ground for the world islamization agenda.


he already create enemy for himself in ECOWAS countries. he don't even know what is diplomatic and one of the reason I doubt if he truly attend the war college.

ECOWAS is going to be with us in any civil war trust me.

The government noted that instead of waiting for conclusion of his application before the Nigerian Domestic Court of Appeal on his bail, the plaintiff proceeded to the ECOWAS court, a move it stated, amounted to, “an abuse of court process or subjecting the Nigerian law to ridicule.


The FG was the first to subject the Nigerian law to ridicule, for not obeying the rules of court of competent jurisdiction.......
Now you will give reasons while these govt is not confused

"Being a member of landlord association does not stop me from discipline my son in my compound." FG to ECOWAS.

Soon dis wicked callous selfish clueles president will end up in hague