March 26 2024 | State Media The case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has put Nigeria in a limelight of a country of extreme abuse of human rights by t...
March 26 2024 | State Media
The case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has put Nigeria in a limelight of a country of extreme abuse of human rights by the Executive arm of government, in collaboration with the Judiciary.
The Executive has terrorized, ambushed, destroyed, and have taken over the Judiciary arm of the government, which is supposed to be INDEPENDENT, and serve as the last hope of the common man.
If the Judiciary of any nation is hijacked by the Executive arm, like it is today in Nigeria, then that nation can be categorically said to have fallen into a "Failed State" status, and this is where Nigeria is, presently.
The continued incarceration of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by the Nigeria government exposes the state as an irredeemable crime scene. When Nigerian government traced Nnamdi Kanu to Kenya, kidnapped, tortured, abducted and extraordinarily renditioned him to Nigeria without any form of extradition procedures and proceedings in Kenya, they didn't consider their image before the World. Extraordinary rendition is an international crime and any country engaging in it shall surely answer to it. Nigeria is not an exception.
It is a "State Terrorism" against Mazi Nnadi Kanu which should attract great local and international consequences as well as set legal and "Human Right" precedent. Sadly, rather than tow the part of soft landing, Nigeria drowns itself further by continuous abuse of the rights of Nnamdi Kanu.
Firstly, the Nigerian state (supervising the Judiciary) has refused to send Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to the appropriate place of custody which is the Correctional facility (Prison), since he started appearing in Court from 28th June 2021.
He has been left in the hands of his abductors for continued incarceration till date. The refusal of the Judge of the Federal High Court to transfer him to the Prison facility is a clear case of abuse of his fundamental rights by the judiciary.
Since he was extraordinarily renditioned to Nigeria, for 3 years, he has worn one outfit till date despite the appeals made by his Lawyers before the presiding Judge, Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja.
In all his appearances, there has been steady mention of his right to change his clothes but the Nigerian DSS has, over twenty (20) times flagrantly disobeyed the ORDER of the COURT, and there hasn't been any consequence so far.
Why is it so? The Judiciary is under the control of the Executive arm. The President over rules. He is the final authority in the Court. The Nigeria Judiciary is in comatose.
Further to this impunity of the Nigeria State, is the refusal to allow Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to have access to medical treatment. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is facing a terrible health condition as a result of the torture he has been subjected to these three years.
Imagine a situation where samples of his blood have been taken for over twenty-five (25) times, without any explanations, and yet there’s no treatment in sight from the State Department (DSS). His personal Lawyer has also brought in an independent medical practitioner who also examined him and came up with the conclusion that the situation he is having right now can lead to heart failure, yet, no approval for him to consult his doctor, as the DSS (Department of State Services) do not have the facility to treat such conditions. The most sensible thing to do is allow him access to his Doctor.
Several appeals have been made to both the Nigeria Department of State Services (DSS) and to the presiding Judge in this regard, but to no avail. This is a plot to watch him die slowly since they cannot condemn him using any criminal charge.
In summary, this inhumane treatment is an effort geared towards shutting down the movement for self-determination by the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), under the leadership of indefatigable, brilliant and revered Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the Ohamadike 1 of Biafra worldwide.
Nnamdi Kanu is a man fighting for liberation his people from Biafra land (which is presently under occupation by Britain, using ONE NIGERIA as a cover), the indigenous people of Biafra, a people who have suffered decimation, discrimination, subjugation, strangulation, and marginalization, and worst of all, total exclusion.
Genocide was committed against Biafrans for three years by the Nigeria State between 1967 and 1970 because they dared to ask for a self-determination from the Nigeria State. The mindless unmitigated killing of Biafrans that was started by the war criminal, Yakubu Gowon, in the genocidal war that he initiated, is still going on till date, after over fifty years.
Unfortunately for the Nigeria State, self-determination is the right of indigenous people of Biafra because Nigeria is a signatory to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples Act.
If by this Act, the people have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
Therefore, they should be able to determine their political future.
The Human Rights Committee states that, 'in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights recognizes that all peoples have the right to self-determination. Self-determination is not a crime in any part of the world including Nigeria which is under Article 20 of Nigeria Law of same Africa Charter.
Kenya, the country that supervised the kidnap and extraordinary rendition of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has a companion law. Same also is the United Nation, and Nigeria knows that under this law, it cannot extradite Nnamdi Kanu through the law. This is why they went through the back door to kidnap him, using a private Jet owned by some criminals to fly him to Nigeria.
Nigeria cannot classify IPOB's Nnamdi Kanu as a terrorist, or associate with any form of crime because he wants to detach Biafra from Nigeria, through SELF-DETERMINATION. Nigeria itself was a beneficiary of the right to self-determination in 1960, just as Britain benefitted in BREXIT.
That's also how Nigeria lost Southern Cameroon to Cameroon. Its either called Referendum or Plebiscite and that's how Nigeria gained Adamawa, formerly in Cameroon into Northern Nigeria. We wonder why that of Biafra should be different.
The Nigerian President and the Judiciary must make haste to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and stop further incarceration and abuse of his Right.
Written by:
Chimdi Ebere
For: Biafra State Media
Edited by:
Mazi Mmadụ Awụchukwu
For: Biafra State Media
Published by:
Chibuike Nebeokike
For: Biafra State Media
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