The leader
of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has vowed not to
return to the Federal High Court in Abuja where he was standing trial before he
left the country.
The Federal
Government had charged him with treason but Justice Binta Nyako granted him bail
after 18 months in detention.
Kanu had
flouted all the terms of the bail before the military invaded his Abia residence
on September 14, 2017.
He fled
afterwards and resurfaced in Jerusalem on Friday.
In a
broadcast via Radio Biafra, Kanu boasted that the Nigerian court lacked the
capacity to try him.
He said the
judge who asked his sureties to produce him should have asked the army why they
invaded his residence.
“The
Nigerian court is a Kangaroo court. I did not jump bail, I left because the
court failed to protect me.
“I shall not
be honouring the court. I cannot be tried by a court I do not recognise. The
zoo called Nigeria cannot jail me. I will fight till the last day. Till now,
Binta Nyanko’s court has yet to hold a hearing about the circumstances that led
the Nigerian Army to come to my house to kill 28 people. Only upon a clear
pronouncement of the intentions of that very court, which I suggest to them should
be free, will this very case move forward.
“Going
forward, there must be guarantee from the international community so that this
case can proceed and I will prove once and for all that there is something
fundamentally wrong with the brains of those that rule Nigeria.”
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