Mike Ozekhome, a senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and lead counsel to the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said the Court of Appeal judgment releasing Kanu was a divine one “thanking Jesus” for the judgment.
The court sitting in Abuja on Thursday discharged and acquitted the IPOB leader and ordered his release.
Ozekhome took over the defense of Kanu this year, and not a few insist that the senior lawyer has done a good job by handling the case in the most effective manner.
In spite of the judgment, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami said the coast is not yet clear for Kanu, that he will remain in detention untill cases against him are cleared.
Malami disclosed this immediately after the court cleared Kanu of all the seven count charge brought against him by the federal government following his arrest in Kenya last year.
Ozekhome however said the judgment freeing Kanu was ordered from the above and beyond human comprehension.
According to the rights activist, the Court of Appeal was “one of those things that you can say (are) ineffable, indescribable, it is only God that can fathom it, because its depth and breadth, its plenitude and amplitude are too wide, too complex for any human understanding.
“Nnamdi Kanu was today discharged of all the remaining seven charges, which…were retained by the Federal High Court. Kidnap, torture and extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya back to Nigeria on the 26th of June, 2021, the lower court glossed over it…”
In August 2020, the IPOB leader said like Jesus Christ who faced temptations, he was under pressure to abandon the Biafra struggle
“In my most private moments – when I reflect on this struggle and its fallouts, I have often been tempted, like Christ, to ask that this cup be passed from me,” Kanu said.
“I am sure you all feel the same in many fleeting moments of despair that is common with the fragile human spirit.
“So, as we mourn this latest mass murder of our people, let us all take some comfort that they didn’t die in vain, they died in honour, they fell in defence of freedom and their precious blood will be best requited by our collective and abiding resolve to never back down until Biafra is restored,” Kanu said.
