Nnamdi Kanu’s Detention Is Humiliation Of 70 Million Igbo People — Ejimakor
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Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, one of the lawyers representing the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has said the continued detention of the IPOB leader is akin to humiliating 70 million Igbo people in the country.
Ejimakor said this in a tweet made on Friday, in which he also noted that it would be difficult to separate Igbo people from Kanu.
He said, “If you think you can separate MAZI NNAMDI KANU from Ndigbo, think again because it’s impossible. The two are – like Siamese twins – joined together FOREVER. So, detaining #MNK amounts to virtually detaining and humiliating 70 million Igbos. That’s impolitic and dicey to boot.”
Ejimakor earlier said that the detention of the IPOB leader was not based on the law of the land but on the politics of tribe and ethnicity.
In March, Ejimakor tweeted that the detention of the separatist leader based on the politics of tribe would tear Nigeria apart sooner than later as the Nigerian government cannot have it both ways.
“A politics that’s based on tribe and ethnicity is doomed to tear a country apart” – Barack Obama.
“The continued detention of #MNK is not based on law but on the same politics of tribe that will surely tear Nigeria apart, sooner than later. You can’t have it both ways. Never!” he had said.
Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of the State Services (DSS) since June 2021 after he was arrested in Kenya and renditioned by the Nigerian government.
The Court of Appeal on October 13, 2022 in its judgment discharged and acquitted Kanu of all the charges levelled against him by the Nigerian government and ordered his immediate and unconditional release from detention. However, he has remained in detention as the government objected to the Appeal Court ruling.
He was a respected minister – Peter Obi mourns Apostolic Church founder
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Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election, Mr Peter Obi has commiserated with the family of Prophet Michael Ojo Olowere, also called Oke-Agbara, founder of the Christ Apostolic Church.
Prophet Michael Ojo Olowere died on Wednesday at his residence in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Reacting, Obi in a tweet on Thursday night, described the deceased man of God as a very respected minister of the gospel of Christ.
He said the late prophet contributed immensely to the missionary and societal growth, stressing that the deceased had made remarkable impacts through his evangelism.
He wrote, “I have just received the news of the death of Prophet Michael Olowere, a renowned evangelist and founder of Christ Apostolic Church, Oke-Agbara.
“He was a very respected minister of the gospel at Christ Apostolic Church. He contributed greatly to missionary and societal growth.
“His many decades of evangelism were very impactful in Oyo State and beyond. I commiserate with his immediate family and Christ Apostolic Church over his demise. May God grant him eternal rest and comfort all who mourn him”.
Court Grants Abba Kyari N50m Bail
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, N50m bail.
Kyari was, on Thursday, granted bail by Justice James Omotosho in a charge in which he and two of his siblings, Baba and Ali, were accused of failing to declare their assets to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Ruling in an application filed by the defendant, Justice Omotosho granted conditional bail to Kyari at the sum of N50m with two sureties in like sum.
The judge added that the sureties must have property worth N25m within the jurisdiction.
The court also ordered that Kyari and his sureties should deposit their international passports, statements of accounts, title deeds of the sureties’ properties and recent passport photographs with the court registrar as part of the bail conditions.
Furthermore, the judge subjected the endorsement of Kyari’s release warrant to developments in another case pending before Justice Emeka Nwite wherein Kyari was being tried with four others on drug-related offences.
In granting Kyari’s bail application, Justice Omotosho held that there was no evidence that he was a flight risk and that he would not attend his trial.
Stop my monthly pension, ex-governor Daniel tells Abiodun
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A former governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, has asked the state government to stop the payment of his monthly pension as an ex-governor.
Mr Daniel is now the senator representing the Ogun East district.
His request was in view of the “ethical code against double emoluments that a serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who hitherto was a former State Governor, shall not be entitled to the payment of pension and allowances from such state.”
The senator made the request through a letter he sent to the state governor and dated 14th June, a copy of which was obtained by PREMIUM TIMES.
The statement read in part: “I write to request for the suspension of my monthly pension/allowances of 676,376.95 (gross) (Six Hundred and Seventy-Six Thousand, Three Hundred Seventy-Six Naira, Ninety-Five Kobo) being paid as a former Executive Governor of Ogun State.
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