Nnamdi Kanu Defies The Court

Nnamdi Kanu Defies The Court: Vows To Defend The Constitution As He Lectures The Court And A Nigerian Senior Advocate Prosecutor On Basic Law! Accuses His Judge Of Grave Corruption And Bias As She Adjourned His Case Indefinitely! – BGE News

A day to remember

February 10, 2025 is a date to be remembered. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the leader of the allegedly proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and his team of legal counsel were in the court on Monday, according to them, “on the invitation of the court.”

Innocently, Kanu further explained that he was in the court because of the respect he has for the court and for Justice Binta Nyako. He equally insisted that they knew not what they were invited for until the court sits.

Arguably, the never-ending uproar that ensued in the court room, BGE News learnt, erupted the moment when the same Justice Binta Nyako who on September of last year, graciously recused herself off the case of Kanu through oral application made by his defense counsel, entered the court room and sat on her hallowed bench to commence hearing on the same matter she stands recused.

Recall that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was illegally renditioned from Kenya into Nigeria on June 2021. Ever since then, Kanu has been detained by the Nigeria court since June 27^th 2021, on charges of treasonable felony. We could also recall that Kanu’s case has been in the court presided over by Justice Binta Nyako for close to four years now-yet, with little or no progress at all! What I’m saying in effect, is in the public domain already.

Poor knowledge of the law is killing Nigeria

In fact, it is in Kanu’s matter that we have seen very glaring gross impunity in the highest degrees ever in the dispensation of justice played out as if there is no substantive rule of law again in Nigeria. A sorry situation indeed, where one lower court disobeys the higher one; and one government institution defiantly violating with no qualm of conscience the rulings of the court and vice versa. And yet no one is held to account.

That might not be unconnected to what provoked Kanu into ranting in the court when against all odds, Justice Binta Nyako who not minding her recusal, insisted as having the jurisdiction again without passing through appeal to hear Kanu’s case and was unlawful supported by the Prosecutor. Hence the reason Nnamdi Kanu lectured the court and the Senior Advocate of Nigeria prosecutor of being ignorant of the law. “The prosecution and the court don’t know the law, that is the fact.” The emotionally tensed up Kanu in his out burst declares, “Poor knowledge of the law is killing Nigeria.” He equally accussed the prosecutor of bias.

He correctly cited some section of the Nigeria Judiciary Policy No 1C to buttress his points. But when neither Justice Binta Nyako who stands recused in his case could not have her way nor the prosecutor whom he already accused of bias talked him into accepting the decision of the Chief Judge, the Judge out of frustration, adjourned his case indefinitely.

Nnamdi Kanu speaks out against the Judge

The decision of the court not sinking well with Kanu, he spilt hell out of his mouth, saying: “Justice Binta Nyako is using her position for personal gain. Her son and her husband are facing corruption charges. And they (the Nigerian Government) told them (the Judge and the court) that if they convict me (they will fre the son and the husband).”

The quick decision of the court to adjourn indefinite was not without mixed reactions from notable Nigerians since them. Prominent among the vocal voices was the former Senator and human rights activist, Senator Shehu Sani. He has publicly called for the release of Nnamdi Kanu. In a post on his X, he emphasized that, “I know there are sentiments and fears but injustice is not the way to justice. A problem can’t be solved by stopping the clock.” He insisted that continued detention of Kanu is unjust.  “it’s unfair to keep; Kanu in a prolonged detention.”

Will the activist be listened to? I doubt!

Certainty, the polity is heated beyond measure, and nerves highly over stretched. What’s going to be the next line of action in that highly delicate case we know not. But one thing we do know and can’t be denied by anybody is that how well or bad the case is handled or mal-handled will say a whole lot of Nigeria and her already weakened judiciary system in the global arena. The world is watching!

Punch News has more on the Nnamdi Kanu’s court cases.