We the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) worldwide under the command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu do hereby wish to
register our displeasure at the inability of Nigeria's Attorney General and
Justice Kafarati to be in court today in the matter IPOB vs FGN regarding the
designation of IPOB as a terrorist group in an exparte order obtained without
our lawyers present.
It took the Attorney General of
Nigeria, Chief of Defence Staff, Nigerian Army, South East governors and
Ohaneze Ndigbo less than 30 minutes to obtain their black market ex-parte order
proscribing and designating IPOB a terror group. Today at the same Federal High
Court Abuja, the same judge in the person of the Hausa Fulani Islamic Justice
Kafarati has run away from hearing the case he himself fixed for hearing this
morning, knowing full well the world is waiting for the outcome of his
considered judgement given that he now has the opportunity to hear from both
parties.
Nigeria was quick to label IPOB a
terror group but cannot come before the same court and judge to defend their
wild accusations because IPOB lawyers came prepared with facts that would have
led to the dismissal of Justice Kafarati as a High Court judge.
All those
legally ignorant people in Nigeria, jumping up and down with joy when the
corrupt Justice Kafarati issued his decree in his chambers tagging IPOB a
terror group, where are you now to tell us why IPOB should not be heard in your
own law court. Black market jungle justice is what badly educated judges like
Kafarati have turned the Nigeria Judiciary into.
Nigeria has now formed the habit of
either running away from the law court or using indefinite adjournments to
frustrate any trial they know they are going to lose. As they failed to appear
before ECOWAS Court sitting in Abuja in the matter Kanu vs FRN last week, again
today the judge himself- an APC pro-government judge for that matter, has
failed to show up in such an important high profile case with global
significance, in the hope of using adjournment after adjournment to frustrate
the only opportunity IPOB has to prove to the world that it is not a terror
organisation.
This lying APC Government think they
are smart. As usual, the Buhari government asked Justice Kafarati to stay away
from court today and in its stead leaked the counter affidavit to the motion
filed by Abaribe's lawyer demanding the Senator produce Kanu to the public.
This APC Government gimmick of seeking to always divert attention away from
topical issues is becoming worrisome. They designed the news headline
today in readiness to divert public attention away from the nonappearance of
Justice Kafarati in court.
Unfortunately, this has become the
norm for this morally bankrupt Buhari administration. A government that
actively engage in lying and deception should not be entrusted with the
protection and preservation of the process of the rule of law. With newspaper
headlines screaming "Kanu is in the custody of Abaribe" they hope to
divert focus away from the disgraceful nonappearance of Justice Kafarati to
Senator Abaribe suretyship. A very clever ploy of using manufactured
sensational news stories to kill public interest in genuine cases of concern to
the people. Welcome to legal practice in Buhari's Nigeria.
The UN, USA, EU, UK, France, Israel
and Russia must demand from Buhari why this judge ran away from hearing this
suit. It was Nigeria that single-handedly, without any evidence, court hearing
or legislative backing, declared IPOB a terror group. Since the laws of
Nigeria, or what is left of it, allows IPOB to challenge such draconian order
in a court of law, Buhari and his Attorney General should be honorable enough
to allow due process rather than asking the judge to skip his own hearing.
According to an eyewitness in Abuja
Federal High Court today, "I entered inside the court this morning with
Barrister Maxwell Okpara, only to be informed that the same judge(Abdul
Kafarati) that granted the prayers for the proscription of IPOB has postponed
the matter to a later date. Okpara said the man is obviously running away from
the case. We're now waiting for the Court clerk to pick another date of
adjournment."
Given the hopelessness and inability
of the National Assembly in Nigeria to rein in the excesses of this Buhari
regime, the international community is morally obliged to impose limited
sanctions on Nigeria for this brazen subversion of the rule of law and
undisguised dictatorial tendencies which breeds instability. They have made it
impossible for the common man to view the law court as a place to obtain
justice in Nigeria. All IPOB is asking for, is an opportunity to prove
before a court of law that IPOB is not a terrorist organisation.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND
PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.
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