Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Division of
the Federal High Court, yesterday, fixed
December 1 to decide whether Nnamdi
Kalu, the detained leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, should be released
on bail, pending his trial, or not.
According to Vanguard, the court said it
would also consider the merit of separate
bail applications by three other pro-Biafra
agitators, Mr. Chidiebere Onwudiwe,
Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi,
who are facing trial alongside Kanu.
The four defendants are answering to an 11-
count charge bordering on treasonable
felony and their alleged involvement in acts
of terrorism. Specifically, the Federal
Government alleged that the four conspired
to commit treasonable felony contrary to
and punishable under Section 516 of the
Criminal Code Act, CAP. C38 Laws of the
Federation of Nigeria, in 2014. Government
alleged that they committed the offence
along with others now at large, on diverse
dates in 2014 and 2015, in Nigeria, London
and the United Kingdom.
Meanwhile, at the resumed sitting yesterday,
the defendants, who are currently at Kuje
Prison, through their respective lawyers,
urged the court to release them on bail
pending the determination of the case
against them. Whereas Kanu moved his bail
application through his lawyer; Mr. Ifeanyi
Ejiofor, Onwudiwe was represented by Mr.
I. Adoga, while Madubugwu and Nwawuisi
were represented by Mr. E. I. Efeme and Mr.
Maxwell Okpara, respectively.
However, government lawyer, Mr. Shuaibu
Labaran, vehemently opposed the release of
any of the defendants on bail, insisting that
they would constitute “a threat to national
security.”
Meanwhile, the family members of the IPOB
leader, Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu, have
accused the international media outfits in
the world, particularly Cable Network News,
CNN, and British Broadcasting Corporation,
BBC, Aljazira and other media companies of
being bias against their son Mazi Kanu and
the struggle for Biafra actualization.
In a statement signed by Prince Emmanuel
Okwu Kanu for the family; it described the
current court case situation of Nnamdi Kalu
as unfortunate, in that the media outfit that
are supposed to be resolute in educating the
people of the world on truth turned its back
to stab the truth.
The statement read;
“It is unfortunate that
CNN, BBC and other
international media
companies that suppose
to be resolute in
educating the people of
the world on the truth
turned back and stab
the truth. The CNN and
BBC were paid by the
Obama government and
British Government not
to air news concerning
Biafra struggle and
Nnamdi Kanu, which is
not fair, Aljazira was a
bit fair for the news of
Biafra and for the
release of my brother
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
who is being
incarcerated since one
year and some more
months now.
We the members of the
family are worried on
why the international
media outfits in the
class of CNN and BBC
cannot tell the entire
world the truth instead
they were allowed to
be bought over by evil
people in the world, we
do not believe before
now that outfits like
CNN and BBC can be so
cheap and loose to the
level that they will not
proves the ethics of
journalism. However,
they fail to understand
that people around the
globe believe in their
news before, but today
they are no more
relevant in the face of
general public because
of their lies, people
believe more on
tweeter messages,
Facebook and other
social media outlets
and newspaper reports
now.
With this, very soon
Radio Biafra will build
an international media
outfit, if it is not
already in that class,
that will compete with
the compromised
international media
outfits like CNN and
BBC.
The Obama
administration
recognize, defend and
support Muslims in the
world in everything
more than the
Christians and he and
his administration
collaborated with the
CNN and BBC in every
evil committed by the
Muslims. the American
and British
ambassadors in Nigeria
were also in
collaboration with the
BBC, CNN and Muslims
to kill unarmed
members of IPOB who
were massacred in a
cold blood in different
cities in Nigeria and
the support for the
illegal detention of
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and
other IPOB members
detained illegally in all
the prisons and
security cells in
Nigeria.
The ambassadors in
their support for
senseless killings of
IPOB members by the
security agents in
Nigeria but for one day
have never condemned
the killing, is a clear
indication that they are
aware of the barbaric
attitude of security
agents in Nigeria. It is
imperative to let the
people of the Nigeria
and the world to know
that Nigeria is never
one nation and cannot
be one because it is
nations with different
value system before
amalgamation in 1914
and we ask these three
nations of Arewa,
Oduduwa and Biafra to
ask themselves this
question, ‘who are you
before amalgamation
in 1914?’ you must
trace your origin
before it is too late.
