The Indigenous people of Biafra IPOB and it's leadership worldwide wish to express our disappointment with the collaboration between the Community Court of Justice (ECOWAS COURT) and the Nigeria Federal High Court Abuja presided over by Justice Binta Nyako. We view this as an unhealthy and dangerous judicial partnership of travesty of justice against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other Biafrans detained alongside him.
The ECOWAS Court and Nigerian domestic courts have been noticeable recently on the way both courts have resorted to making a complete mockery of justice by systematically extending the dates of their respective rulings on the cases before them involving our supreme leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu versus Federal Government of Nigeria. From a viewpoint of fairness and justice, these undue delays are appalling.
Does it mean that African judges are not capable of standing up to defend the rights of the individual against a brutal and dictatorial state, simply because the state pays the salaries of those judges? Can't ECOWAS Court learn something from the European Court to see where judgements are delivered against sovereign governments on a daily basis. Does it mean ECOWAS Court and Federal High Court Abuja both funded by the APC Government of Nigeria must do the bidding of their paymaster President Muhammadu Buhari by denying Nnamdi Kanu and others justice in this clear cut case of persecution against those agitating for their God given right to self determination?
It is not healthy for society or the interest of democracy for judges to base their handling of court cases on protecting the interest of who pays their salary. If this ugly, unjudicial and illegal trend in not checked in black Africa, there is no hope for democratic development and defence of the rule of law. We can understand, if not condone, Buhari's crude interference in the judicial process because he is by nature a dictator, what is baffling is that justices of the law both in ECOWAS Court and Federal High Court Abuja should aid and abate him in the abuse of human rights and perversion of the course of justice.
The determination of the case of gross abuse of human rights instituted by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu against the regime of Muhammadu Buhari has been pending before ECOWAS Court since March 2016. Any reasonable person is bound to ask why it has taken such a long time to deliver judgement on a clear cut case of disobedience to court order which everybody is already aware of.
Since the inception of these two cases, there has been what can at best be described as judicial caricature in both courts of ECOWAS and Federal High Court Abuja under Justice Binta Nyako and Injustice John Tsoho before her, because of fear that their salaries and funding will be cut off.
Buhari blackmailed the corrupt John Tsoho into delivering biased unconstitutional rulings and the same criminal intimidation has carried on with Binta Nyako. That is why all her rulings are not only unconstitutional but downright unlawful. Buhari has intimidated judges to the point that reckless illegal rulings has become the norm. The judges (both ECOWAS & Federal High Court Abuja) are now willing accomplices in the unconstitutional, immoral and illegal detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in order to satisfy the totalitarians tendencies of the APC Government.
Meanwhile, Justice Binta Nyako by her conduct in this very matter, has reduced an already vanishing integrity of the Nigerian judiciary, by her wholly illegal approach in the handling of this case. Her unconstitutional attempt to institute secret trial when there is no such provision in any known law or in the Nigerian Constitution is indicative of her unsuitability to be a judge. Her attempt to please the APC Government of her fellow Fulani Islamic brother Buhari having failed, she now resorted to indiscriminate adjournments in order to keep Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in illegal detention along with the wishes of the APC Islamic Government of Nigeria. Binta Nyako has brought shame and mockery to the noble profession of the law.
It is very sad that black Africans have through this case, involving Nnamdi Kanu, proven that they are still, even in the 21st Century, incapable of human civilisation. This same partial and compromised approach to adjudication was what led CAF to bring in foreign referees to officiate football matches in Africa.
More so, we all are aware that Justice Binta Nyako as a Fulani relative of Major-General Muhammadu Buhai is actively assisting the Fulani run DSS in looking for any incriminating evidence with which they can hinge the justification of the illegal detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Binta Nyako and ECOWAS Court must know that their primary concern should be the unbiased interpretation of the law and not to stifle legitimate Biafra agitations. Neither should Binta Nyako use Nnamdi Kanu to get her family to escape EFCC investigations into corruption, bribery and money laundering allegations against her husband and first son.
Again, we observe that both ECOWAS Court and Nigeria Federal High Court Abuja have ran out of conscience and ideas on how to handle this case. They must therefore tell the whole world why they are still delaying this matter in their respective courts. We are calling on the civilised world of Europe, America, Australia and Asia, since Africa appear not to want to act in a civilised manner, to prevail on the Attorney General of the Federation of Nigeria and their corrupt National Judicial Commission to release our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and others detained illegally in Nigeria prisons and secret cells across Nigeria.
ECOWAS court which earlier fixed its date for ruling on the case of gross human rights violation instituted by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been moved to March 7, 2017 from the scheduled date of February 9, 2017 with no justifiable reason. ECOWAS Court even crassly maintained that the new date may still be extended if the need arises. What this shows is that Nigerian domestic courts is now working hand-in-hand with ECOWAS court to keep delaying this matter. Binta Nyako is should be noted also moved her own date for ruling from February 10, 2017 to March 1, 2017 without reason also.
There is a saying that justice delayed is always justice denied. We have no confidence in compromised poor African judges who demonstrably do not know the law or are too terrified to apply it. Their primary preoccupation as judges should not be to secure their own personal financial well-being by doing what the Nigeria Government, who admittedly is the principal financier of ECOWAS Court, tells them to do, but rather the unbiased dispensation of justice.
We emphasise our call on the civilised world, men and women of good conscience, World Christian societies, international observers, Human Rights organisations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other interested parties to prevail upon the Nigeria Government to release our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other members of IPOB detained in all the Nigeria prisons and DSS cells across the country because courts in Africa are too corrupt and infinitely incapable of delivering fair judgement in any case involving a Biafran.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.
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