Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra pictured in the court
Charles
Ogbu, a popular columnist, weighs in on the recently announced stringent
bail conditions given to pro-Biafra secessionist leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
Hate is a
very dangerous emotion. The most dangerous, actually. The ironic thing
about hate is that it does more harm to the hater than it does to the
hated. Sadly, the Nigerian state is presided over by a man who hates for
a living. It grieves me beyond reason to see that this senseless hate
has found it’s way into the sacred temple of justice that is the
Judiciary.
Yesterday, the 25th day of April, 2017,
in the case of the leader of The Indigenous People Of Biafra, Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu versus the Nigerian state, the presiding judge, one Binta
Nyako, granted bail to the IPOB leader with one hand and took the
freedom attached to the bail with the other hand.
According to the judge, Nnamdi Kanu is
being granted bail based solely on health ground but in a move that left
no one in doubt that the Judge never really meant to grant bail to the
Aba-born Prince but was simply bent on distracting Nigerians from the
long absence of the gravely ill president Buhari, she gave some of the
bail conditions to include that (1) the Biafra strong man must produce a
senator, an influential Igbo leader plus a Jewish leader as surety who
must all deposit 100 million naira each and must have landed property in
Abuja (2) he must not be seen in company of more than 10 people. (3) he
must not grant any interviews (4)All his passports must be submitted to
the court, among others. And his bail will be revoked if he violates
any of the aforementioned conditions.
Now, permit me to analyse these conditions:
(1)The Jewish Leader condition:
In her moronic bid to mock Kanu’s claim
to the Jewish faith, madam Binta Nyako ended up mocking the judiciary
and subjecting her position as a Judge to ridicule.
If a Nigerian citizen who lay claim to
the Jewish ancestry/religion must produce a Jewish leader to surety him
on bail in Nigeria, will a Nigerian who pray towards Mecca also be
required to produce an Islamic cleric from Saudi Arabia to stand surety
for him, too?? Will my father, Ogbu Nwa-chima, an adherent of the
traditional religion, be asked to bring an Amadioha priest as surety if
he has a case in Nigerian court?
(2)Kanu Must Not Be Seen In Company Of More Than 10 People:
This particular condition exposes this
fulani woman Judge as a hopeless bigot playing a script that is far
removed from what the judiciary stands for.
Nnamdi Kanu is the most influential Igbo
man alive. He has millions of followers both here in Nigeria and
outside this country. There are hundreds of thousands of other Nigerians
who really don’t care about Biafra but have come to love him because
they believe he is a victim of tyranny. Even Kanu’s immediate family is
made up of more than 10 people seeing as he is of royal blood.
Except you were born dumb or a product
of Quota system, how do you grant bail to such a man and still insist he
must not be seen in company of more than 10 people??
The hospital he will visit for his health problem, will he hire soldiers to keep every other persons away?
Even outside the court premises, how do
you stop his number-less followers –many of whom have categorically told
you to either give them freedom from oppression or kill them– from
mobbing him??
In a clime where confidence in the
judiciary holds meaning, madam Binta Nyako would have been relieved of
her duty immediately. No Judge whose brain was not producing anti-bodies
against itself would give this kind of senseless condition for bail.
(3)Kanu Must Not Grant Interviews
A wise man once said and I quote: “When
you cut off a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar. You are only
proving to the people that you are afraid of what that man might say”
I will leave this here.
If Madam Binta Nyako was not a hate
merchant like her principal, Buhari, how would she grant bail to a man
on health ground and still attach all these devilish conditions? Without
Nnamdi Kanu’s passport, how would he be able to get medical attention
outside Nigeria? Does Binta Nyako really want Kanu to get medical
treatment or she plan on seeing him die of ill-health in prison?
If Muhammadu Buhari was not a dark
hearted man, why would he be releasing boko haram terrorists from prison
with cash compensation and protecting his murderous fulani kinsmen with
a special army taskforce while he is using his stooge, madam Binta, to
ensure that Kanu who has never killed a fly remains in jail?
If the so called human right activists
in Nigeria weren’t as useless as the Buhari presidency, they would have
since seen that Nnamdi Kanu’s case is now a clear case of the abuse of
the fundamental human right of a citizen by a 16th century brained
highly vindictive No-Where-To-Be-Found President.
Any man or woman, Igbo or not who brokered this kind of evil deal for the IPOB leader is more devilish than the devil.
Life is fraught with ironies, though.
Beautiful Ironies, sometimes. While Nnamdi Kanu and his comrades are
smiling and looking healthy in prison, where is their jailer, Muhammadu
Buhari? What is his condition today?? Don’t get it twisted. Charles Ogbu
is simply asking for the whereabout as well as the health status of his
“dear” president. Between Kanu and his jailer, who is really in prison?
Indeed, evil does not pay!
In all of this, I am glad beyond words
that the bravest of them all, Nnamdi Kanu, have put the murderous
Nigerian govt to shame once more by rejecting those satanic bail
conditions. By insisting he would either walk out of prison with his
comrades unconditionally or die in prison with them, he has again proven
that true leaders are born, not made.
Isn’t criminally funny that the Buhari
govt which flouted the Dec.17th order by justice Adeniyi Ademola that
Kanu be released unconditionally is now expecting reasonable folks to
treat the stage-managed ruling by a Judge who has never hidden her bias
against the defendant with any iota of seriousness?? It is settled in
law that even if a Judge delivers a ruling while visibly under the
influence of alcohol, that ruling must either be obeyed or appealed. The
Buhari govt neither obeyed nor appealed Justice Ademola’s ruling on
Kanu.
A president who chooses which court order to obey or disobey is the biggest threat to his country.
A Judge who allows hate to cloud her sense of judgement is not fit to even work as a cleaner in a court.
Nnamdi Kanu was wrong, though. Nigeria
is not a Zoo. It is not even a jungle because in jungle, it is all
animal for himself. The Jungle does not have a govt which uses the
instrumentalities of state to give undue advantage to certain categories
of animals while oppressing another category of animals as is the case
with Nigeria.
Nigeria is a walking tragedy. Not
because a certain Charles Ogbu said so but because it is the only
country where pre-historic hate-filled men and women like Buhari and
Binta Nyako who are deaf, dumb and blind to the sanctity of human lives
as well as the fundamental human rights of citizens are the ones
presiding over the affairs of decent people and serving in the temple of
justice.
This country is nothing short of a crying shame!!
Charles Ogbu is a social media activist. Connect with him on Facebook.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
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