By Adesina Soyooye
Alloy Ejimakor, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s American-trained Lawyer, has been remanded in prison custody.
Shearing same fate with him is the detained Leader of the Indigenous Peoples Of Biafra, IPOB’s younger brother, Emmanuel and 10 others.
They were remanded on Tuesday at the Kuje prisons by a Magistrate court sitting in Kuje, FCT Abuja.
Their remand is a consequence of their participation in the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest which held in Monday in Abuja.
This was revealed by another of Kanu’s
younger brothers, Kanuta Kanu, in a post on X, immediately after the court session on Tuesday.
He wrote: “The magistrate seating in Kuje remanded Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, the lead counsel in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case and Prince Emmanuel Kanu, his youngest brother. This is a conspiracy from the executive, legislature and judiciary to frustrate Kanu’s trial on Thursday.”
Ejimakor had, on Monday, October 20, made public his arrest by the Nigerian Police for his participation in the peaceful protest for the release of Kanu.
Kanu has been in the custody of the Federal Government since June 2021, and is charged with among other charges, treasonable felony.
The Court document which was shared by former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria, HRCN, Prof Chidi Odinkalu, Tuesday on his X page said that they were charged by the Police for inciting disturbance and breach of public peace in disobedience to a court order.
The document said that the suspects denied other citizens freedom of movement, and disrupted free flow of traffic as they chanted war songs and requested for the release of Nnamdi Kanu.
But on Monday, Benjamin Hundeyin, Force Public Relations Officer, said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme that Ejimakor, Kanu’s brother, and others would be charged to Court on Tuesday.
The #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest is a brain child of activist Omoyele Sowore, a politician and Publisher of SaharaReporters
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