No moral justification to continue to detention Kanu – Reps Finally Wake Up

 

People do not voice out to help you initially until they perceive or have a sixth sense that  good news was coming your way and not to be left out, they quickly voice their support for you. Whether it is out of love or not the Some House of Rep have voiced out to say that the Defendant in this suit has no reason to be incarcerated as the offence charged against them was bailable.  All these times una no talk! Director of  Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is pictured sandwiched between security operatives, leaving the court yesterday in Abuja.


The defendants who are answering to five-count criminal charge the Federal Government preferred against them, through their respective lawyers, prayed the court to grant them bail.


Kanu’s lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, stressed that the court had in a ruling on March 1, struck out six out of the eleven count charges the FG initially slammed against the defendants. He noted that charges that were struck out by the court bordered on criminal conspiracy and alleged involvement of the defendants in acts of terrorism. According to Ejiofor, that aspect of the charge having been expunged by the court, there was no basis for both Kanu and the other defendants to still remain in prison custody. His argument was adopted by counsel to all the other defendants, who maintained that going by the pending charges, they no longer posed security threats to warrant their continued detention.

 Meantime, Justice Nyako also fixed April 6 to determine merit of application by the defendants, asking her to vary the order that gave FG the nod to shield identities of all the witnesses billed to testify against them.