Kanu has been in detention since he was arrested in Kenya and extradited to Nigeria final June.

 

In a letter issued on Tuesday and obtained by SaharaReporters, Fein requested George Obiozor, president common of Ohaneze Ndigbo, to cease conserving silent over Kanu’s ordeals.

The lawyer tackled the Nigerian authorities for his consumer’s continued detention, including that the incessant modification of expenses towards him reveals they haven’t any case.

Fein mentioned Ohaneze Ndigbo can’t proceed to assert neutrality within the matter when Kanu is being maltreated for pushing for the nice of the south-east.

The letter reads: Nnamdi Kanu is certainly one of you—born on the identical soil, raised on the identical meals, buoyed by the identical music and dances, and nurtured by the identical tradition, impressed by the identical flag. He has risked that final full measure of devotion (together with dodging bullets of would-be assassins) to ship the Biafran individuals from the merciless oppression and genocide of the Fulani-controlled Authorities of Nigeria–like Moses and Pharoah within the Previous Testomony.

“Final June, Nnamdi Kanu was kidnapped, tortured for a number of days, and terribly renditioned from Nairobi to Abuja in a felony conspiracy between Nigeria and Kenya. The conspiracy was a part of an ongoing Nigerian genocide of Biafrans prohibited by the Genocide
Conference.

“The purpose is to exterminate them via killings, rape, plunder, hunger, theft of actual and private property, and collective denial of livelihood. For almost a yr, Nnamdi Kanu has been punished by indefinite detention in solitary confinement and denied entry to wanted vitamin, medical care, and counsel of selection in
violation of worldwide human rights legislation and the Nigerian Structure.

“(The Fulani authorities notoriously honours the Structure within the breach moderately than within the observance). Nnamdi Kanu has additionally been denied his proper to a public, immediate, and honest trial earlier than an neutral decide. It has grow to be apparent past an affordable doubt that the Fulani zealots haven’t any incriminating proof towards him.

“They purpose to imprison Nnamdi Kanu indefinitely with out a trial praying for both for his demise or handing his fraudulent prosecution to the subsequent administration and wash their hand like Pontius Pilate. The Fulani have amended the fees towards Nnamdi Kanu 3 times.

“They continue to be infinitely obscure. They trespass on the universally acknowledged worldwide legislation proper of each individuals to self-determination exalted in Article 1 of the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 3 of United Nations Common Meeting Decision 61/295, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007).

“However armies of attorneys and investigators, the Fulani stay unprepared for trial after the elapse of greater than 11 months since Nnamdi Kanu’s detention in Abuja. There nonetheless isn’t any trial date.

“The prosecution climbed to a brand new stage of farce on Might 25, 2022. A bail listening to had been set by Justice Binta Nyako for Might 26. Bail has been denied on the preposterous concept that Nnamdi Kanu beforehand jumped bail in September 2017 when he barely escaped an assassination try by exercising his inalienable proper to self-preservation when Nigerian safety forces riddled his residence with bullets murdering many others.

“An Abia Excessive Court docket has awarded Nnamdi Kanu 5 billion naira for that flagrant and infamous violation of basic rights. The day earlier than the bail listening to, Justice Nyako introduced via the courtroom Registrar
that she had grow to be “indisposed” and had adjourned the case one other month to June 28, 2022.

“Couldn’t the Justice concoct a greater excuse, like affliction with Covid Indisposed means a gentle sickness that passes in days? A extra doubtless rationalization is that Lawyer Common Abubakar Malami, appearing on the directions of President Muhammadu Buhari, ordered Nyako to once more postpone the proceedings as a result of the prosecution has no case.

“Rely upon it. With out public denunciation of Nnamdi Kanu’s continued political persecution thundering like a hammer on an anvil demanding his launch and a dismissal of the manufactured expenses with prejudice, the June 28 bail listening to will even be postponed advert infinitum. Nnamdi Kanu’s merciless punishment with out trial will persist in infamous violation of the Nigerian Structure and worldwide legislation.

“You collectively have a authorized and ethical obligation to talk out publicly towards this travesty of justice that day by day inflicts nice distress on the Biafran individuals. Don’t grow to be traitors to the noble trigger. Danger a tiny fraction of what Nnamdi Kanu has risked to regain Biafran sovereignty.

“It was stolen by the British over a century in the past and the Fulani have refused to revive it by resorting to genocide. Silence just isn’t acceptable. Neutrality between the firefighter and the hearth just isn’t an possibility. You can’t escape the judgment of historical past. Present you might be made from sterner stuff than quislings.”