Several South-east leaders, including governors, have been appealing for the IPOB leader's release from detention.
Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra , has said that releasing the IPOB leader would not be an “act of mercy”, but an obedience to various court orders which freed him. since he was rearrested in Kenya and brought back to Nigeria in June 2021, after initially fleeing the country in 2017.
The government, through the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, later appealed the court ruling and subsequently obtained an order staying execution of the court judgement at the Supreme Court. The lawyer argued that the continued detention of Mr Kanu after being freed by various courts was not only illegal “but is, in the present circumstance, manifestly extrajudicial and unconstitutional to boot.”
He recalled that the Federal High Court in Umuahia had declared Mr Kanu’s extraordinary rendition and consequent detention as “flagrant violations” of the constitution. “The narrative that freeing him lies exclusively in the hands of the Supreme Court is fundamentally false. It is also malicious, prejudicial and profoundly injurious to Nnamdi Kanu’s legal interest, especially as it offers the authorities the umbrage and easy political cover to persist in the illegal detention of Nnamdi Kanu,” he said.The Nigerian government in September 2017 proscribed IPOB and tagged the group a terrorist organisation.
He stressed that Nigeria, as a member of the UN, was bound by treaty and customary international law to comply with the directive
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