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Kanu’s Counsel Says His Detention Violates International Law, To Petition UN
Counsel to Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, chief of the Indeginous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Bruce Fien, stated yesterday that the continued detention of the IPOB chief remained unlawful, as a result of it violated worldwide regulation.
Fien, nonetheless, stated he had gathered further info from yesterday’s proceedings to be added to his petition already earlier than the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Talking with Come up Information, Kanu’s expatriate counsel, who stated the eleventh hour change of the costs most well-liked in opposition to him, with out permitting him to reply, was unconstitutional, additionally took a swipe on the choice to bar journalists from the proceedings, saying it was a violation of their constitutional rights.
Condemning Kanu’s abduction from Kenya with out trial, he stated, “There are irregularities right here. I’m coming from the USA, there’s no manner that authorities may change the cost on the eleventh hour with out having a chance to reply to the brand new allegations.
“Earlier than I arrived in Abuja, I traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, the place there’s a working group on arbitrary detention as a part of the UN Human Rights Council, and primarily based upon what transpired at present, I’ve further info that I’ll current to them, looking for an adjudication that the detention of Nnamdi Kanu is prohibited beneath worldwide regulation.”
He additional said that, “The Nigerian Structure additionally has free speech provisions in part 39. I feel what occurred at present is a violation of part 39.”
On the choice to bar journalists from overlaying the proceedings, he stated it was a breach of their constitutional rights.
“The media has a proper to look at. Furthermore, beneath worldwide regulation and in the USA, there’s a constitutional proper for journalists to attend, as a result of it creates a sort of stress placing a searchlight in opposition to corruption or intimidation and issues of that kind, not solely simply the press on the market each bizarre citizen has the best so long as there’s room to sit down in a courtroom,” he stated.
Reiterating his condemnation of Kanu’s abduction from Kenya by safety brokers with out trial, he stated the scenario was in opposition to worldwide regulation.
“That makes the detention unlawful, partly, apart from different violations, however absolutely beneath any sort of due course of, it’s completely unlawful to kidnap somebody take them with none listening to.
“They stated that that they had acted in collusion with the Interpol, what they haven’t stated is that there was any listening to that enabled Nnamdi Kanu to dispute and it’s important to deliver it earlier than a choose earlier than you’re kidnapped not afterwards. The regulation may be very clear on that rating.
“He was not given any listening to earlier than they took him there, certainly 4 of the seven counts that are actually lodged in opposition to him. They weren’t even launched till after he had departed Kenya and was in Nigeria,” he stated.
