Kanu offered the money to any law student who can provide an authority where a judge granted stay of release of a person acquitted by the court.
This was disclosed by Kanu’s legal team led by his lead Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, Jude Ugwuanyi, and Nnaemeka Ejiofor, and Mandela Umegborogu in Abuja on Tuesday.
Speaking on behalf of the lawyers, Ejiofor said: “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu pledges to give any law student in any Nigerian University the sum of One Million (N1, 000, 000.00) Naira if such student finds any precedent on stay of execution in criminal proceedings where an acquitted person is by such order restrained from enjoying his freedom.
“It is an illegality that would hunt Nigeria for as long as life endures. But then, it was granted because Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is of Igbo descendants and must suffer, notwithstanding what the law says.”
The legal team also insisted that Kanu’s contentious detention was illegal and without any court backing.
He added: “It is noteworthy that Onyendu’s continual detention at the Department of State Security Service is illegal and not predicated on any court Order. Recall that Onyendu was remanded on the purport that Onyendu jumped bail.
“By the decision of the Court of Appeal, all the charges for which Onyendu is being tried were quashed for want of jurisdiction and in violation of the Extradition Acts of both Kenya and Nigeria.
“Justice Tsamani of the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division unlawfully granted an Order staying the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“This order was illegally granted and never in the history of any country’s jurisprudence had an acquitted person been denied his release from detention by way of stay of execution.”
Speaking on behalf of the lawyers, Ejiofor said: “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu pledges to give any law student in any Nigerian University the sum of One Million (N1, 000, 000.00) Naira if such student finds any precedent on stay of execution in criminal proceedings where an acquitted person is by such order restrained from enjoying his freedom.
“It is an illegality that would hunt Nigeria for as long as life endures. But then, it was granted because Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is of Igbo descendants and must suffer, notwithstanding what the law says.”
The legal team also insisted that Kanu’s contentious detention was illegal and without any court backing.
He added: “It is noteworthy that Onyendu’s continual detention at the Department of State Security Service is illegal and not predicated on any court Order. Recall that Onyendu was remanded on the purport that Onyendu jumped bail.
“By the decision of the Court of Appeal, all the charges for which Onyendu is being tried were quashed for want of jurisdiction and in violation of the Extradition Acts of both Kenya and Nigeria.
“Justice Tsamani of the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division unlawfully granted an Order staying the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“This order was illegally granted and never in the history of any country’s jurisprudence had an acquitted person been denied his release from detention by way of stay of execution.”
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So, why cant the supposed Lawyer do the Job`????????????
Ohamadike!!!!
ReplyDeleteOnyendu has challenged the entire Nigerians and I doubt anyone would pick up such challenge in a country filled with professors and intellectuals. This isn't the first time he's throwing a challenge. I remember vividly when he called for a debate and promised if he's being defeated, he'll drop his agitation for Biafra. No one was courageous enough to pick up the challenge. He also won Federal government on multiple court cases before their own very court.
What sort of a man is he???
If he's actually guilty, since 2015 till date which is over a decade, why haven't the government found him guilty and jailed him? For ten years he has been in this legal battle and currently incarcerated in the last five years, yet he's unbroken and had refused every bribe given to him in exchange for his freedom.
It's so absurd and frightening at the same time that an appellate court judgment ruling discharging and acquitting an accused was stayed on execution. What a joke of a country.
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@Teejay, indeed what a joke of a country! When the citizens are blinded by hate and prejudice, the smell of a soured soup will grace the air to reach the neighbours. What do you expect in a country where the political criminals are exhausted? 😩 Unto Nigeria as the citizen wishes!
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ReplyDeleteThis matter is so controversial.
@Gifted, no it is not controversial. The problem is, Nigeria has no respect for the rule of law. This is deliberately structured by the political elites to cage the constituents. Anyone still believing that this country will be better is sitting on a thin rope. I just wish that the vulnerable members of our society are left to be live (at least) and have food on their tables.
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DeleteNigeria is a lost course. Some of us have given up long before now. When we say Nigeria is irredeemable, it's not from a place of hate but of reality.
DeleteNIGERIA CAN NOT WORK!!!
Nigeria is being structured not to work for the common man but for the few criminal political elites and their pay Masters (colonial Lords)
Go and see what the military junta countries are doing currently after cutting off the white supremacy and dominance in their countries. Yet Nigeria keeps borrowing and extending hands of fellowdhip to be colonized perpetually.
The evil that thrives in the Nigerian judiciary makes the devil shudder. I have said everything that needed to be said on the many woes of the Nigerian state and will never bother myself or get drained over its failures anymore.
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The federal government of Nigeria should release this man! That's just my own! Nigeria is currently non- existent with the lawlessness going on everywhere! Give Biafra Republic and give us our Urhobo Kingdom! The others can go sort themselves out!
ReplyDeleteThen we can have a collaboration with any Republic as deem fit! Nigerian population was already out of control, before the idiot from Daura imported the Magrhebs into Nigeria!
Now under Tinubu, they have started importing them into Nigeria again!
Is Nato and the evil globalist destabilising Nigeria with these evil Bororo fulanis, who are not from Nigeria! Thank God for January 20th! Nigeria is done! Please don't join any pastor to pray for one Nigeria again! Pray 🙏 for your region.
It is illegal, well Nigeria is filled with illegalities.
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