Don’t let Nnamdi Kanu die in detention — Ozekhome Warns Buhari
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Mike Ozekhome, counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Monday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to order the release of his client.
Kanu has been in DSS custody for over 14 months since his arrest and extradition from Kenya to Nigeria.
He is on trial for treasonable felony.
In July, the United Nation Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in a 16-page report, had indicted both Nigeria and Kenya governments for the arrest, torture and continued detention of the IPOB leader.
In a letter on Monday, Ozekhome called on Buhari to order Kanu’s immediate release through a more productive “political solution”.
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Ozekhome said Buhari can order Kanu’s release in line with section 174, which gives the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) powers to “discontinue at any stage before judgement is delivered any such criminal proceedings instituted or undertaken by him or any other authority or person”.
” You can do this by instructing the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation to wield his powers under section 174 of the 1999 Constitution to enter a “nolle prosequi”. This will immediately halt the present restlessness and sits-at-home mantra currently ravaging the South East and paralysing business and normal life,” Ozekhome said.
