Nnamdi Kanu’s trial a national disgrace — Lawyer

A human rights lawyer and Director of Favorable Affairs, Be taught and Global Communications of the Indigenous Other folks of Biafra (IPOB), Barrister Onyedikachi Ifedi, has taken a swipe at the Nigerian authorities over the endured trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

The lawyer described the landmark judgment by the Kenya Excessive Court docket as a say judicial indictment of the Nigerian authorities below the behold of dilapidated Attorney-Total Abubakar Malami.

Onyedikachi accused Malami of overseeing what he described as an global criminal operation that has now exposed Nigeria to extra than one counts of treaty violations, shriek-backed terrorism, and grave human rights abuses.

He talked about this in an announcement he signed and made on hand to journalists on Monday in Abuja.
He known as on the Tinubu-led authorities to conclude the continuing sham trials and select steps to conform with the judgments of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Umuahia Division, and the Excessive Court docket of Kenya.

The statement read, “We esteem to commend the Excessive Court docket of Kenya for its landmark ruling that declared the abduction, detention, and forcible transfer of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria as a flagrant violation of his traditional rights, in conjunction with the factual to liberty, magnificent hearing, and due strategy of law, as assured below every the Kenyan and Nigerian constitutions, along with global lawful instruments to which Nigeria is a signatory.

“This ruling isn't any longer merely a vindication of Mazi Kanu’s prolonged-standing standing. It's a say judicial indictment of the lawlessness perpetuated by the Nigerian authorities below the behold of dilapidated Attorney-Total Abubakar Malami, who supervised this global criminal operation that now exposes Nigeria to extra than one counts of treaty violations, shriek-backed terrorism, and grave human rights abuses.

“Now that a legitimate court in Kenya—the territory from which Mazi Kanu modified into as soon as abducted—has issued a reasoned, dauntless, and unambiguous judgment, the Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Abuja can now no longer pretend that the demand of unlawful rendition is beside the point.
“Actually, by advantage of the Nigerian Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022, His Lordship Justice James Omotosho is below a lawful responsibility to predict into the jurisdictional propriety of the trial, in conjunction with whether the muse of this complete case is depraved by illegality.

“Certainly, Fragment 2(3)(f)(ii) of the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022 affords verbatim as follows:
‘An act which deliberately—(f) violates the provisions of any global treaty or decision to which Nigeria is a event, discipline to the provisions of portion 12(1) of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999—(ii) by unlawfully seizing, kidnapping or abducting any particular person… will likely be regarded as an act of terrorism below this Act.’

“This provision is apparent, unambiguous, and devastating in its implication: any Nigerian legit—civilian or navy—concerned referring to the abduction of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya has, by operation of Nigerian law, dedicated an act of terrorism.
“Moreover, Article 12(4) of the African Structure on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which is binding on Nigeria and domesticated as portion of Nigerian law, affords:
‘A non-national legally admitted in a territory of a Assert Party to the most recent Structure may well well well handiest be expelled from it by advantage of a name taken in step with the law.’
“No such decision modified into as soon as ever made by any court in Kenya. No extradition hearing modified into as soon as ever conducted. Mazi Kanu modified into as soon as blindfolded, tortured, and bundled onto a inner most jet in Nairobi, in a criminal enterprise extra connected to Frigid Struggle-era renditions than one thing else accredited below up-to-the-minute African or global law.

“Here's a matter that goes beyond mere lawful technicality. The kidnapping of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a constitutional desecration, a betrayal of world tasks, and—now below the Terrorism Act 2022—an indictable offense.”
He urged Justice James Omotosho to act in step with his oath to uphold the Structure and guidelines of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by exciting every the prosecution and the defence to tackle the court on the implications of the Kenyan judgment and the applicability of Fragment 2(3)(f)(ii) of the Terrorism Act.

“Let or no longer it's clearly talked about to Nigerians, and to the global neighborhood, that any court in Nigeria continuing to determine on a discover at Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in defiance of the due project clause of extradition law, and in willful brush apart of treaty tasks, isn't any longer handiest violating the Structure—it's miles assisting and abetting terrorism.

“These hoping to avoid Nigeria’s salvage guidelines may well well well private to point in moderation: the Terrorism Act 2022 defines the trial of a particular person illegally abducted in breach of an global treaty as terrorism itself. In other words, every sitting of the court that proceeds with out first curing the foundational illegality of this rendition is itself an unlawful act.

“Here's the disgrace and disgrace that Abubakar Malami—and other folks that proceed to defend his illegalities—private introduced upon the Nigerian shriek. A trial built on illegality is itself unlawful. A court that closes its eyes to jurisdictional abuse loses real and lawful legitimacy,” he added.