Nnamdi Kanu: Free to go home
… All charges against him dropped
Jubilations have broken out in some circles in the South East as news that Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the demand for the creation of a State of Biafra has finally regained his freedom.
Kanu has been held in detention for months by the Nigerian authorities in connection with heinous crimes that are being committed in the East by persons suspected to be members of IPOB.
Thursday, the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja ordered the release of the former fugitive who was lured out of the UK, forcefully adopted in Kenya by the nation’s security operatives and brought home to face trial.
The Court held that his arrest and eventual incarceration was largely unlawful and acquitted him of serious allegations of murder, sedition and terrorism.
Kanu had recently asked through his lawyer, Mike Ozokheme, SAN, for a political solution to the PROBLEM.
We cannot however confirm at this time if the request for a political solution in any way played any role in his release.
Kanu’s close associate, Ifeanyi Ejiofor who is also a lawyer and human rights activist, confirmed on Facebook that Kanu is now a free man.
Ejiofor who took to his Facebook page said in his reaction, “Appeal allowed, Oyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, discharged and acquitted.”
The Biafra leader in an appeal dated April 29 and marked CA/ABJ/CR/625/2022, had applied to be discharged and acquitted.
Recall that Kanu was first arraigned in a Nigerian court on December 23, 2015 and was later granted bail on April 25, 2017.
Thereafter he jumped bail and escaped abroad to pursue a separatist agenda designed to revive the Biafran dream.
Many hope that his freedom would lead to normalization of life in the South East, put a stop to the gruesome killings that are taking place and end the sit-at-home arrangement that has become part of life in the East.