By Abubakar Yakubu, Abuja
The senior lawyer in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s legal team, Nnaemeka Ejiofor, on Thursday called for a special investigative panel to be made up of judicial officers and retired senior security personnel to probe the wanton killings in the South East, which are sometimes unjustly linked to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The lawyer, who stated this shortly after presenting a letter to the attorney-general of the federation in Abuja, lamented that Kanu is suffering the same fate President Bola Tinubu and other NADECO members went through during the military regime of General Sani Abacha, when Sergeant Rogers and members of his strike force went on bombing spree in order to paint a picture of insecurity in the country during that period.
He said, whenever prominent persons are trying to tie- up a political solution to effect the release of Kanu, some unidentified persons commit serious havoc and it is blamed on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which is led by him. Ejiofor recalled that during the visit of some South East elder statesmen led by Chief Amaechi Mbazulike (First Republic minister) to then President Muhammadu Buhari, Buhari out of respect for Mbazulike, promised to consider the request.
He said several days’ later, two soldiers from the South East, who were about to get married, were captured by some unidentified people and brutally murdered, and they blamed IPOB for the incident.
“Likewise the recent national tragedy where five soldiers were killed in Aba in Abia State, just a few days after the Ohaneze President, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu vowed to see President Tinubu over Kanu’s continued detention,” he said. Ejiofor disclosed further that the letter submitted to the attorney-general of the federation showed the many judgments of Nigerian courts and international panels such as, the African Union’s African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Right, as well as the United Nations Human Rights Council working Group on Arbitrary Detention, all calling for Kanu’s release.
He said all the judgments were enclosed with the submitted letter to assist the attorney-general reach a fair and just decision, so that he can advocate for the dispensing of justice with a human face and see that the judgments on Nnamdi Kanu are enforced.