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nedekid:
Are businesses people? How many times have you heard of troops killed in the SE, even police, it happens but on very low scale. The north with the whole war over there has not seen a casualty of 30000 troops and police combined not to talk of the SE.

Zionmdde:
If the release of a northern criminal will bring lasting peace to the north, the entire North will push for it
Since the government have shown they cannot handle insecurity, then the best thing is to do what they have to do to prevent it.
As I mentioned before, the release can come with very strict conditions and precautions, if done well he can be used as an agent of peace in the region. Lest I forget, it's only in your warped country judicial system that he is called a convicted terrorist. I hope you know other countries will receive him witch open arms any day any time

Tareq1105:
Your combination with your coalifusion raise to power 3 would not stop Tinubu APC from getting 2nd term.

Is it today south east states have been voting wrongly? In the 16 years you served PDP, what's your highest position?

geunik:
This figure is rivalling the number killed by boko haram. That should tell you all you need to know that this figure is concorted

nedekid:
Oga, 30,000 igbos killed? It must have been an emotional slip of tongue.
You and I know no 30,000 igbos were killed, maybe he meant 300.

Jostoman:
since you people don't have any meaningful things you can use to convince the Northerners to vote for your oga in 2027, I can see that you people have gone back to your old religion and tribe dirty tactics again.

TRUTHaDDICTED:
Before you rush to rejoice, go and read the article well to help you understand what Kalu was talking about, Kalu was simply referring to the number of Igbo youths killed by Nigerian army of terrorists.

HgAkpobomeEr:
Over 30,000 Igbos were killed. That figure is staggering.

The lawmaker representing Abia North, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, on Sunday lamented that the secessionist agitations linked to the activities of the convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, led to the death of over 30,000 people and the destruction of businesses across the South-East.

Kanu disclosed this when he was featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

Speaking against the backdrop of Kanu’s recent conviction on terrorism charges, the former Abia governor cautioned political actors and supporters to shelve what he described as “noise making” and instead pursue a political resolution to the crisis.

The lawmaker argued that public discourse has been disproportionately fixated on clashes involving security operatives while ignoring the mass casualties and business losses suffered by ordinary people across the South-East.

He said, “I wouldn’t like to talk about this issue. It’s not the time for noise-making or fighting. It’s a time for sober reflection. We have to solve this problem holistically. Do you know that over 30,000 Igbos were killed? People who have shops lost their businesses.

“I used to sell my own manufactured products in Aba. I know what the numbers were. But people are just talking about soldiers killed and not the rest of them. The problem of Nnamdi Kanu is what we need to solve through political process.

“Just as the theory Bianca Ojukwu and Mascot Kalu propounded, they (people) should stop the noise and focus on the settlement with the federal government. Let me tell you. I have been working with the Federal Government on how to solve this issue.”


Kalu described the destruction as widespread and deeply personal, recalling traders who lost their livelihoods, including his late mother’s friend, whose rice business was wiped out during the unrest.

“My mother’s friend had a rice shop. The woman who owed my mother about N4.2m. But they ransacked the old woman’s shops and she went bankrupt. Nobody talks about it,” he lamented.

Kalu, who said he has been quietly engaging the Federal Government on a political settlement for Kanu, stressed that resolving the matter requires strategic dialogue rather than heightened emotions.

“Let Igbos stop being emotional. I want us to settle down, go on our knees and find a way that a man can be released. It’s part of my job to do it.

“Let me take you to memory lane, when I wanted to join the APC in 2016, Late President Buhari, with his minister of justice, and the DSS found a way to support me because I told them I wouldn’t join the party if Kanu was not released on bail to face trial. (Of course) If you order people to kill others, you must face trial. But I wanted it to be in his house.

“But they wanted it to be in my house, I told them no because where I live is sensitive. So, I said release him to Umuahia. Alhaji Mamman Daura and Malami are alive. They all helped to make sure that he was released on bail. I know the pressure that I faced before his release in April 2017,” he noted.

However, the former governor decried that despite all he passed through to tame Kanu, he felt betrayed by the chains of reaction that almost brought the South-East to its knees.

The senator further recounted his past interventions, including persuading the Buhari administration to grant Kanu bail in 2017, and resisting pressures to stop The Sun newspaper — which he owns — from publishing stories on the IPOB leader.

He said, “I know my discussion with Nnamdi Kanu. I was the first to see him in 2016 and the first to meet him when he came from Kenya. I know my discussion with him. The DSS was there. They heard my discussion with him.

“Remember, I own the Sun Newspaper. On four occasions, President Buhari wanted to proscribe the newspaper because it was the only paper supporting Kanu. It’s not owned by Igbos. But I told the journalists who work in the Sun Newspaper to write what they see because it is a public trust.

“The then federal government wanted The Sun to stop putting Nnamdi Kanu on the front page. But I’m for free press. Louis Odion is your colleague. When he left as the Sun editor after five years, he wrote at the back of The Nation title that I was the best publisher he had seen. If you ask Femi Adesina, Mike Awoyinfa and the late Dimgba Igwe, they will tell you the same thing.”

Kalu also defended Justice James Omotosho, who convicted Kanu earlier in the week, insisting that court judgments must be respected even when contested.

“Nobody should question the decision of Justice Omotosho. If you are displeased, you go to the appellate court. It’s not to start insulting the man.”

He criticised Kanu for being “unruly and unnecessarily aggressive toward the judge,” contrasting it with his own conduct during his corruption trial.

If you remember, I was given 12 years (imprisonment), but I never insulted the judge. The other day, I saw the judge at the National Assembly when he came to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice. I embraced him and gave him all court seats.

“We must condemn certain behaviours. You cannot rant up in the competent jurisdiction. I take exception to it. People might say it is good. Justice Omotosho is just a messenger of the court. It is his job. If you are displeased, you go to the appellate court. It’s not to start insulting the man,” he argued.

Earlier in the week, The PUNCH reported that the Federal High Court in Abuja convicted Nnamdi Kanu on all seven terrorism-related charges brought against him. Justice James Omotosho sentenced him to life imprisonment on counts one, two, four, five and six—opting against the death penalty.

He was handed down 20 years on count three, which involved membership of a proscribed terrorist group, and five years on count seven for unlawful importation of a radio transmitter. Both carry no option of a fine.

The charges stemmed from Kanu’s secessionist activities, alleged killings of security personnel, destruction of public infrastructure, and the operations of Radio Biafra.

The court ruled that his threats and sit-at-home directives in the South-East amounted to acts of terrorism under Nigerian law.

Dpaulie:
No longer his misdeed right?

Maryiah:
He's ni in jail. How do Nigeria navigate and come out if incessant terror attacks?

iamfraud:
Peter Obi should go and tell Jubrin Elsudani who arrested convicted Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya through baited with Olosho

WHEN JUSTICE BECAME A PERFORMANCE: THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE OF TURNING NNAMDI KANU’S TRIAL INTO CONTENT

I had genuinely intended, out of sheer exhaustion and out of respect for the sensitivity of this moment, to refrain from revisiting this saga. But the avalanche of calls, messages, and trembling voices from our people has made silence no longer an option.

I am therefore compelled to offer sober introspection, especially as someone who successfully steered this very case for nearly a decade, securing landmark victories, unassailable legal milestones, and enduring a long trail of threats, assassination attempts, and brushes with death. Through all of this, Grace remained my only constant protection.

However, after Thursday’s spectacle, correcting the wild conjectures, poorly manufactured narratives, and brazen misinformation now circulating like a digital epidemic has become absolutely necessary.

THE FIRST REVELATION THEY WON’T TELL YOU

During the period our team handled this matter, from 2015 to December 2024, up until Prof. Mike Ozekhome, SAN, assumed leadership of the legal team in 2022; we were on the threshold of securing yet another major relief for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, particularly after the Court of Appeal discharged and acquitted him in 2022. Sustained pressure, strategic diplomacy, and airtight legal maneuvering had placed us on the verge of another monumental breakthrough.

Regrettably, certain sensitive details of this progress were, perhaps innocently, disclosed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to some of these clueless clowns. Rather than support a strategy they barely understood, they seized the information as an opportunity to derail the entire process and treacherously orchestrated a change in the status quo. Consequently, we exited the team, gloriously, and with our integrity intact.

Let us speak plainly:
A high-profile, internationally sensitive criminal trial is not a circus ring.
But once these bloated, delusional entertainers-in-wigs inserted themselves into the process, everything degenerated into a grotesque parody of legal representation.

Instead of crafting legal strategy, they crafted Instagram stories.
Instead of mastering case law, they mastered camera angles.
At every court session, their priority wasn’t research or preparation, it was posing, filming, updating, grandstanding, and “going viral.”

Meanwhile, the accused man’s fate hung by a thread.

THE MOST TRAGIC PART OF IT ALL

Even after the court explicitly warned that self-representation in a complex constitutional and criminal matter was dangerous, these “consultants” encouraged it, clapping like paid spectators in a village arena.

And so the unthinkable happened:
1. A trial that could have been paused, or avoided ab initio, had the proper methodology and engagement been applied.
2. A conviction that could have been prevented.
3. An outcome that was entirely avoidable, yet allowed to proceed under the guidance of legal lightweights intoxicated by social-media relevance.

They railroaded him, knowingly or unknowingly, into the savage pit of a full criminal trial, fully aware that other lawful avenues existed.

Even while the trial was ongoing, they busied themselves with dishing out falsehoods, half-truths, and misleading “updates” to an unsuspecting public.

Every lie told outside the courtroom became a landmine inside the courtroom.
Every exaggerated “update” became a contradiction the prosecution gleefully documented.
Every camera stunt became a professional embarrassment.

And now, instead of remorse, they have resumed their post-trial routine:
fresh videos, fresh lies, fresh false hopes, desperate for clicks.

The tragedy continues because the vulnerable still believe them.

THE GREATEST PUZZLE OF ALL

How did foremost legal minds, globally respected Senior Advocates of Nigeria such as Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN, Chief Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, and other erudite members of the Inner Bar; men fully versed in the anatomy of high-wire criminal litigation, become disengaged at the most critical moment of the trial, only for mediocre adventurers to hijack a matter of international significance and reduce it to a TikTok legal carnival?

Who replaces world-class physicians with herbal storytellers during brain surgery?
Who replaces strategic diplomacy with reckless grandstanding?
Who replaces law with theatrics?

Only a system already preparing for disaster.

WHERE WE GO FROM HERE
For any meaningful rescue effort by globally respected legal experts, the first task must be to clean up the monumental damage inflicted by these self-advertising jesters. A comprehensive review of methodology, effective engagement, and drastically reduced publicity must precede any intervention. Only then can a coherent, sophisticated legal and political strategy be fashioned.

This is not the time for comedy.
Not the time for inflated egos.
And certainly not the time for social-media theatrics.

It is time for soberness.
Time for competence.
Time for real advocacy.

#EnoughIsEnough

Signed:
Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Esq. (KSC)
November 22, 2025

omoredia:
Brave man wey give Buhari sleepless nights. Brave man that is know but u till u last generation will never be known. Brave man that they couldn't break after years in enemy captivity. Brave man that has legacy that is an inspiration to millions more now

muhammadmuqtada:
To be candid Mazi Nnamdi needs to be integrated into the society after 10yrs of tormenting trial.

VaselineCrew:
A site meant for the lowest of the lowest of vile Nigerians.

It brings me joy that with all your wickedness, you won’t see even one naira from Seun.

God is not mocked.

Others will thrive elsewhere earning 10s of thousands of dollars, while you stay here celebrating Kanu jail time, like he ever killed anyone.

yang:
Convicting on basis of threats is laughable

Terrorrism is a very serious issue, the culprits have to be brought to book

Acts are different from threats

The judgement on Kanus case is totally laughable

The fact that several courts ordered his release and the government kept him in defiance to court orders is enough to throw the prosecutor case file into dust bin

The fact that his home was violated by fed govt when he was under bail and several people killed by the government is another reason to dismiss the case, the government attempted to murder him and is now accusing him of terrorrism clearly null and void

The fact that he was kidnapped illegally in Kenya makes the whole case null and void

But Nigeria is a zoo so ....

The Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu to life Imprisonment instead of death sentence.

Justice James Omotosho who handed down the sentence on Thursday had called for recess after convicting the IPOB leader.

Kanu was convicted under the Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act, insisting that the gravity of the offenses leaves the court with only one lawful option – the death penalty.

chiagozien:
Who gave Asari dokubo power to form armed group?

igbosarejews:
When they say Kanu Jumped bail, Buratai who was the army chief of defense then, will explain to the court how they invaded Kanu's home, that prompted the court to declare the invasion unconstitutional, the discharged Nnamdi as of then, though he was still held.

Malami will accounts for how Nnamdi Kanu was brought back from Kenya, the circumstances and with the verdict by the Kenya's court. The list goes on and on.

Cherrybae:
This is a smart move by kanu. The compileable witnesses if they appear will exonerate kanu via their testimony and cross examination.

Kanu lawyers are indeed wise.

I wish kanu all the best