Ugochinyere Reacts To Supreme Court Judgement On Nnamdi Kanu

Ugochinyere Reacts To Supreme Court Judgement On Nnamdi Kanu

Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, the spokesperson for the Coalition of Opposition Lawmakers, expressed sadness over the Supreme Court’s denial of justice to Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), despite declaring his abduction in Kenya and house invasion illegal in the same judgment.

Representing Ideato Federal Constituency of Imo State in the House of Representatives, Ugochinyere made this statement regarding the Supreme Court’s judgment on Kanu issued on Friday.

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The Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s judgment that dismissed the terrorism charges against Kanu. The apex court deemed the court of appeal’s decision as erroneous, stating that the trial court couldn’t proceed because the prosecution violated Kanu’s rights.

Justice Garba Mohammed, in the prepared judgment, condemned the invasion of Kanu’s residence, deeming it irresponsible. The court asserted that there is no law in the country preventing a trial based on the violation of a suspect’s rights. It added that Kanu could file a civil case against such actions instead of stripping the courts of their power to continue with his trial for alleged criminal charges.

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Ugochinyere, in a statement released in Abuja, lamented that, given the Supreme Court’s decision to send the matter back to the Federal High Court, Kanu would be filing a fresh bail application there.

“It was indeed sad and painful watching the Supreme Court on Friday denying Nnamdi Kanu freedom, even after it declared his Kenya Abduction and House Invasion illegal in the same judgement.

“Hence declaring such treatments against him illegal, one expects that the apex court could have served him justice by allowing the judgment of the Court of Appeal and upholding his discharge and acquittal.

“Again one was also expecting that the accepts the prayers of his counsel, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) that the court dismiss the appeal filed by the federal government with punitive costs and uphold the cross-appeal in order to do substantial justice to this matter as his client (Kanu) has been in custody since June 29, 2021,” he said.

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“Nigeria presently is contending with terrorism in the north-east; farmers-herders clashes and banditry in the north-central; abductions and armed attacks in the south-west; restiveness and attacks by unknown gunmen in the south-east, and abductions, cult wars, vandalisation of oil installations and oil theft in the south-south region.

“Kanu can help tackle insecurity in the South-East, that’s why those who want the confusion in the region and Imo state in particular to continue will always at nothing to make sure he doesn’t get justice and be freed.

“I, therefore appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to show fatherly introspection by intervening for discontinuation of the process using his constitutional powers in the interest of peace, reconciliation and unity especially in this season of Christmas and New Year where forgiveness is the in thing.”

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