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The lead Counsel of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Aloy Ejimakor, on Saturday, reacted to the United States, US, report on the Biafra agitator.<\/p>\n

Ejimakor urged the Nigerian government to admit its error in Kanu\u2019s trial and bring the prosecution to a closure, \u201cwithout further ado.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US \u201c2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria\u201d said the Nigerian secret police violated Kanu\u2019s right during his arrest and extradition.<\/p>\n

The report also said Kanu was arbitrarily arrested by the Nigerian security agents in June 2021.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the report, Ejimakor commended the US for officially and publicly acknowledging the unlawfulness of Kanu\u2019s rendition.<\/p>\n

A statement signed by Ejimakor reads: \u201cThe attention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s Legal Team has been drawn to an official publication (a few days ago) by the United States government, captioned: \u201c2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria,\u201d whereby the US government acknowledged the obvious that \u201cNigeria\u2019s secret police had violated Kanu\u2019s rights during his arrest and extradition\u201d and that Kanu was a victim of \u201carbitrary arrest\u201d in June 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, his Legal Team hereby expresses its profound appreciation to the Government of the United States including, in particular, the US Mission in Nigeria. It is indeed a demonstration of diplomatic courage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt needs to be emphasized that this laudable position the US government has waited for almost three years to take and make public is surely well-considered and thus important for two reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, it affirms the case-in-chief we have adduced since June 2021 that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was unlawfully renditioned, not lawfully extradited. These are two opposite concepts that bear dissimilar legal implications.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecond, it is expected that \u2013 coming from a respected and an influential foreign power like the United States \u2013 this public acknowledgement will likely encourage the Government of Nigeria to also acknowledge that it had gravely violated Kanu\u2019s inalienable human rights by subjecting him to a horrendous extraordinary rendition.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be sure, one way the Government of Nigeria can come clean and acknowledge this egregious wrong done to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is to banish any further temptations to impunity and summon its powers and discretions under the Constitution to bring the prosecution of Nnamdi Kanu to closure, without further ado.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our view, this is the most sensible thing to do because Kanu\u2019s prosecution has, by effluxion of time, become attritional and questionable to boot, given that it was initiated almost a decade ago in 2015 and for alleged offences that are no longer in play.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are other cogent reasons, including the open and notorious fact that it is becoming increasingly clear that Nnamdi Kanu may never get a fair trial by dint of the grave complications created by the locale of his current detention.\u201d<\/p>\n

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