Read How Justice Binta Nyako Ended Nnamdi Kanu’s Hope Of Freedom
By DailyTab24.
Determined to secure his release from detention, Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra fails to secure his release from detention for the umpteenth time. He will go back to DSS detention facility where he has been for more than two years while facing charges regarding insurrection and treasonable felony.
Hopes were high among the members of IPOB that their leader would be released from detention, but that hope crashed after Abuja High Court under Justice Binta Nyako decided that he won’t be granted bail. The court held the submission of the prosecutor’s counsel that the leader of IPOB is not worthy of bail. The prosecutor stood on his previous argument that Nnamdi Kanu is not trustworthy of being granted bail.
The new lead counsel of IPOB, Alloy Ejimakor argued that his client’s health status which was confirmed by a federal government owned hospital is acute enough to earn him a bail. His argument was founded on the ground that his client’s health was deteriorating in the DSS dungeon, which lacks apparatus to take sufficient care of him. He also urged the court to grant a conditional bail, without citing the conditions he wants.
Ejimakor diligently cited to Justice Binta Nyako various reasons upon which to grant his client bail, which include lack of caring, privacy concern and the condition to enable him plan the defense of his client with him. On issue of privacy, he complained that his communications with his clients are being monitord each time he visits him to discuss how to prepare his defense – reasons that ultimately fell on deaf ears.
Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, the federal government counsel pleaded the court to decline the plea of the defense, noting that there was no evidence before the court that Nnamdi Kanu is not being medically taken care of. He argued that Nnamdi Kanu continues to have access to medical care, which was confirmed by his counsel.
Going further, the prosecution counsel also urged the court to throw away the application for bail on the ground that Nnamdi Kanu has jumped bail initially and there are no guarantees that he would report back to the court if granted bail. The prosecution counsel instead asked the court to accelerate the hearing to enable quick resolve of the matter for both parties.
Justice Binta Nyako who initially granted a bail that was revoked by the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the defense counsel. It’s strange that the issue of bail was raised again after the Supreme Court quashed the initial bail granted by the court. Going further, it appears Nnamdi Kanu have exhausted his window for bail application, going by his vocal and disorderly complaint in the court.
Speaking after the official ruling; Nnamdi Kanu complained bitterly about the treatment he was getting in the DSS detention facility. He accused the DSS of denying him visitors and always choosing who visits him or not. He also complained about his deteriorating health status; saying that his cognitive heart disease is now taking toll on him, citing his swollen legs.
He also pleaded randomly for the DSS to take him to prison where he can have access to his private medical doctor. DSS continues to deny him access to his private doctor and have declined his plea for them to conduct surgery on him to correct his heart issue.
Nnamdi Kanu was detained more than two years ago after jumping bail. The history of his capture remains a mystery, as he was captured in Kenya and illegally brought to Nigeria. There was no data of his rendition to Nigeria, and it was upon that argument that he won a bail application that was later overturned by the Supreme Court.
Nnamdi Kanu will unfortunately spend the remaining days of his legal battle in DSS detention.
