IPOB lawyer decries FG’s disobedience of courts, UN tribunals
Though the Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, last week, discharged embattled leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Nnadi Kanu, after quashing all charges against him, Imo residents remained at home, while business places and schools, yesterday, were shutdown.
Traders in markets, as well as shops in Owerri remained at home. Some commercial and private vehicles stayed out of roads, while some banks rendered skeletal services.
Many streets and inter city roads were scanty as there were few vehicles on the road.
When contacted, residents told The Guardian that they, were afraid of the unknown as Kanu was yet to be released from the Department of State Service (DSS) detention after the Appeal Court’s discharge pronouncement.
One respondent, an Owerri-based trader, who identified himself as Israel, said: “These people may rely on the fact that Kanu was discharged, but not released to cause harm to anyone that shows up on the streets.
“Until this matter is over, I will continue to be careful on Mondays. Remember, last time, IPOB asked people to go about their businesses on Mondays; but some persons are still attacking people.”
MEANWHILE, Special Counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Aloy Ejimakor, has urged Nigerians and the international community to do the needful in ensuring that Federal Government obeys judgments of courts and that of international tribunals.
Ejimakor, who spoke, yesterday, while reacting to a statement credited to the former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. John Campbell, who, reportedly, in a tweet @John Campbellcfr, said: “Nigeria’s government cannot afford any more mishandling of Kanu. The safety and security of the country depends on it.”
Describing Campbell’s remark as caution to Nigeria, Ejimakor recalled: “Nigeria’s disobedience of 2018 decision of a continental tribunal on Kanu was the first mishandling.”
He listed other instances where Nigeria disregarded judgment of courts and tribunals, including that of the United Nations that was handed down in July this year.
He said: “The extraordinary rendition was the second. Putting Kanu on trial was the third. Disobeying the United Nations was the fourth. And the likelihood of disobeying the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal will be the fifth.”
SOurce: Guardian.ng