The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has described as travesty, the Nigerian government's use of civil proceedings to overturn an order of the court that discharged and acquitted him from criminal charges.
Kanu’s displeasure was made known by his special counsel, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, after his associate whom he simply identified as Barrister Mandela visited Kanu in the custody of the Department of State Services on Thursday.
“In other words, criminal and civil processes are not supposed to mix, especially in a case such as this. It is more egregious where a civil process was used to overthrow or overturn a criminal process,” he said. “All these things have now resulted in a manifestly unjust situation where Kanu’s detention has turned extrajudicial and extra-constitutional, because he is neither currently facing any trial, nor does he have any charges pending against him.
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