Nigeria: Kanu's fate rests with Judiciary
5 January 2022 By Abiodun Giwa

The fate of Nnamdi Kanu, the Nigerian agitator for the State of Biafra, now rests with the judiciary, intervention by third parties to wrestle him out of jail having failed. Expectedly, President Muhammed Buhari's decision not to intervene with the judiciary process following a call on him to do so puts the hope of the agitator's release outside the court to an end.
President Buhari said in an interview during a television broadcast that the case is out of his hands because it is not his style to interfere with the judiciary process. "Kanu's case is with the judiciary, but what I wonder is when Kanu was safely in Europe, abusing this administration and mentioning too many things, I thought he wants to come and defend himself on the accusations."
President Buhari spoke emphatically about those he said wanted Kanu freed and said, "No, we cannot release him." Kanu will have his time again with the judiciary later this month. He first became the guest of the Nigerian state when he demanded the freedom of the eastern part of the country in a secession bid. He was freed on bail in 2018 but jumped the bail and traveled out of the country. He said his life was in danger in Nigeria.
Kanu granted a couple of media interviews critical of the Nigerian state in favor of his case and the secession bid during his three-year stay abroad. He was arrested by Interpol in Kenya and deported to Nigeria. He appeared before a court following his arrival in Nigeria for terrorism-related cases.
There is another agitator for extracting the western part of the country for self-determination. His name is Sunday Igboho. He fled the country over a free Yoruba state. He was arrested by police at Republic of Benin airport in Cotonou about to board a flight to Germany. He is in detention in the Franco-Phone country without any hope of freedom.
Observers have asked why President Buhari faces issues about people wishing to free their parts of the country from his government's control. The answer is President Buhari's inheritance of many political and economic problems, part of which he helps in creating as a former military head of state before retirement and emergence as a civilian leader. One of such problems is endemic corruption and lack of direction.
He did not create corruption. But Nigeria has remained a rudderless state like a vehicle whose driver has lost control. Nigerians loved Buhari as a military head of state before becoming a civilian leader. He won the presidential election as a corruption fighter being what he was known for the first time he led the country as a military ruler. But unfortunately, the love for him seems to have waned with the evil of corruption blossoming amid efforts taming the evil.
The only solution to rid the country of separatists' agitation is responsive governance with limited corruption. So observers opine but say it will require a leadership without corrupt people in their corridor.
President Buhari said in an interview during a television broadcast that the case is out of his hands because it is not his style to interfere with the judiciary process. "Kanu's case is with the judiciary, but what I wonder is when Kanu was safely in Europe, abusing this administration and mentioning too many things, I thought he wants to come and defend himself on the accusations."
President Buhari spoke emphatically about those he said wanted Kanu freed and said, "No, we cannot release him." Kanu will have his time again with the judiciary later this month. He first became the guest of the Nigerian state when he demanded the freedom of the eastern part of the country in a secession bid. He was freed on bail in 2018 but jumped the bail and traveled out of the country. He said his life was in danger in Nigeria.
Kanu granted a couple of media interviews critical of the Nigerian state in favor of his case and the secession bid during his three-year stay abroad. He was arrested by Interpol in Kenya and deported to Nigeria. He appeared before a court following his arrival in Nigeria for terrorism-related cases.
There is another agitator for extracting the western part of the country for self-determination. His name is Sunday Igboho. He fled the country over a free Yoruba state. He was arrested by police at Republic of Benin airport in Cotonou about to board a flight to Germany. He is in detention in the Franco-Phone country without any hope of freedom.
Observers have asked why President Buhari faces issues about people wishing to free their parts of the country from his government's control. The answer is President Buhari's inheritance of many political and economic problems, part of which he helps in creating as a former military head of state before retirement and emergence as a civilian leader. One of such problems is endemic corruption and lack of direction.
He did not create corruption. But Nigeria has remained a rudderless state like a vehicle whose driver has lost control. Nigerians loved Buhari as a military head of state before becoming a civilian leader. He won the presidential election as a corruption fighter being what he was known for the first time he led the country as a military ruler. But unfortunately, the love for him seems to have waned with the evil of corruption blossoming amid efforts taming the evil.
The only solution to rid the country of separatists' agitation is responsive governance with limited corruption. So observers opine but say it will require a leadership without corrupt people in their corridor.
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