The legal team of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has threatened to pull out of the trial if the Department of State Services (DSS), refuses unfettered access to Kanu, held in its custody.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja yesterday, the lead counsel, Alloy Ejimakor, said the team would not participate in any process that would bring injustice to Kanu.
“We will not be part of murdering justice in a Nigerian court over the head of Nnamdi Kanu. We will refuse to be part of the programmed injustice”, he said and decried the DSS’s denial of access to Kanu by his legal team, making it difficult to properly prepare for his defence in the terrorism charge slammed against him by the Federal Government.
Speaking earlier, another member of Kanu’s legal team, Nnaemeka Ejiofor, said the unlawful repatriation of Kanu from Kenya by the government was an international crime committed by the government, using its security agents.
He said: “If Nigeria was to be a human being, it would have been committed to prison for committing the heinous crime. The government sent people to Kenya to kidnap Kanu; those people should be arrested and punished.
“Until Nigeria purges itself of the crime of kidnapping Kanu, it remains a crime country”, he said, adding that Kanu never committed any crime and did not do anything to warrant his “persecution by the government of Nigeria.”
According to Ejiofor, calling for self-determination and a referendum on whether the nation should stand as Nigeria is not a crime that should lead to the incarceration of the IPOB leader.
He said Nigeria does not have a valid Constitution to rely on, pointing out that the1999 Constitution is an extension of the decree of the military junta in power at that time.
“To avoid a vacuum, we are managing it as a country and yet the government is not respecting it, until the people of Nigeria come together to decide whether to exist as a nation, there cannot be a Nigeria.”
