Vincent Obetta, counsel to detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has refuted reports that he (Kanu) tendered an apology to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Obetta told TheCable yesterday that reports of Kanu’s apology were proof that government was trying to use all instruments at its disposal to ‘puncture’ the Biafra campaigner’s defence. “It is not true,” he reiterated.
“Government is using every instrument to puncture what we are doing,” he maintained.
Department of State Services (DSS) arraigned Kanu in court in October. Shuaibu Usman, presiding over the Chief Magistrate Court, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, had earlier discharged him on all counts of criminal conspiracy and ownership of an unlawful society brought against him by the Federal Government.
The Federal Government then filed a fresh five-count charge of treasonable felony against Kanu, after Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, ordered the DSS to release him ‘unconditionally’.
In his ruling, Ademola held that the continued detention of Kanu by the DSS was unlawful, since the accused was yet to be charged on suspicion of terrorism. Speaking before the Federal High Court the following day, Kanu said he had lost confidence in the court’s abilities to give an order and have the authorities follow it, asking the court to leave him in detention.
“I will rather remain in detention than subject myself to a trial that I know amounts to perversion of justice,” he had said.
Meanwhile, Archdeacon of Oyi Anglican Archdeaconry in Anambra State and human rights activist, Venerable Joseph Nweke, has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari for Kanu’s release without further delay.
He said Kanu’s continued detention in disobedience of court orders could be likened to the Biblical Pharoah who refused to allow Israelites leave Egypt and also, the Biblical John the Apostle who could not be killed by enemies, even after they threw him into hot oil.
Nweke, who spoke at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Ogbunike in Oyi Local government during a church service to mark St. John the Apostles Day, specifically called on Buhari not to harden his heart to Kanu’s release.
Nweke said he had gradually read the charges preferred against Kanu logically and came to a conclusion that he did not do any thing to warrant his continued detention against all the orders of various courts of competent jurisdiction.
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