“Grandstanding and Courtroom Theatricals will not take the place of answering to charges of multiple killings and Terror”.
For the sake of Clarity, let it be understood that the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, in his role as the Administrative Head of the Federal High Court is the one to ASSIGN the cases that come before the Federal High Court to the Judges who will take those cases. He could also assign some of the cases to himself and there are Administrative Head-Judges in each of the Divisions of the Federal High Court who also assign cases that come to those Divisions to other Judges of that Division.
The rule being cited by the accused from the Gazette restrains the Chief Judge from DIRECTING the Judges on what to do in the cases assigned to them.
What the accused and his dishonest lawyers are doing with this outburst is to deliberately obfuscate the Power of the Chief Judge To Assign Cases to other Judges of that Court
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The Power of the Chief Judge to Direct the Judges to whom the cases are assigned on what to do in the cases assigned to them.
This deliberate distortion of issues by the Defense Team and their Client is to deceive the public into thinking that the Chief Judge was Directing the Judge to whom the case was assigned (Binta Nyako) on what to do in the case assigned to her, contrary to the Administrative Rules.
The only involvement of the Chief Judge so far in the case relates strictly to the assignment and possible reassignment of the case after Judge Binta Nyako RECUSED herself from the case (Recuse means excusing herself from continuing to preside over the case as Trial Judge). The false impression Nnamdi Kanu and his lawyers are deliberately creating is that the Chief Judge is interfering in the case and DIRECTING the Trial Judge on what to do in the case.
The serial Grandstanding and Outbursts in Courtrooms are simply being orchestrated by Nnamdi Kanu in collusion with his dishonest lawyers as a ploy to evade Trial, in the hope that with the passage of time, something might change in the political space to force a political solution rather than a legal solution.
The reason for adopting this stonewalling strategy is easy to discern. On account of the weight of evidence against him for the charges preferred against him, he has no chance at law of escaping conviction and sentence. The penalty for those offenses is heavy, most are capital and so that is why he and his lawyers resorted to hollow courtroom drama as a strategy to avoid trial and blackmail an equally guilty system, but the public is being deceived into thinking that it is all about mediocrity of the Court or Judge or a continuation of the Igbo Victimization. It is none of the above, except we choose to blindfold our eyes.
In the other agitation cases from other parts of Nigeria, particularly the Sunday Igboho, that is frequently cited from the Yoruba flank. The agitators were not killing their own people or security personnel.
To get an indication of what is going on in the Nnamdi Kanu Trial, here are notes of clarification and other public communications on the subject including a rebuke of Mike Ozekhome in the period before the Supreme Court Judgement that ordered the matter back for Trial at the Federal High Court as well as the notes and video clips establishing the nexus between Nnamdi Kanu and his partner-in-crime, Simon Ekpa.
HERE ARE ANTECEDENT MATERIALS FOR EASE OF REFERENCE:
- Regarding The Trial Of Nnamdi Kanu, Going On At The Federal High Court In Abuja On The Orders Of The Supreme Court:
In the ongoing Trial at the Federal High Court on the orders of the Supreme Court, it may interest us to learn that no Court ordered the Acquittal or release of Nnamdi Kanu, including the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Discharge of Counts of Charge on Technical Grounds does not amount to Acquittal that would be grounds for release. Acquittal happens only when the trial for the charges has taken place. In the case of Nnamdi Kanu, no trial has taken place for any of the charges.What we are seeing is a situation where Dishonest and Greedy Lawyers are Leading an Ignorant and Arrogant Client down the path of damnation. (Read below, the public rebuke I had to address to Mike Ozekhome a few days before the Supreme Court Judgement. It is a great pity that Igbo will be dragged in the mud by these characters).
Almost everything you have read and heard regarding the trial, are deliberate distortions and deception by his legal defense team, with him in connivance.
Here was my public rejoinder and rebuke to Mike Ozekhome who led that legal defense team to the Supreme Court for choosing to join Nnamdi Kanu in misleading the ignorant IPOB Footsoldiers and the ill-informed Igbo public globally as the false impression is maintained that both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court Discharged, Acquitted and ordered the release of Nnamdi Kanu but that the Government of Nigeria was merely refusing to obey those Court Orders.
For the avoidance of doubt, let it be made clear that Tony Nnadi is not suggesting that the Courts in Nigeria are doing an excellent job of Dispensing Justice according to Law nor am I suggesting that Nigeria is operating under the Rule of Law. No. The limited issue being raised by this intervention is that the Lawyers and the accused person are deliberately setting up a false narrative to deceive the Igbo Public in circumstances that will harm the wider Igbo public that is being deceived by those falsehoods.
Is it not tragic that the Igbo would stand by, and watch as a clear-minded criminal, who in furtherance of a hollow scam tagged “Biafra Restoration”, (under which he and his confederates including Simon Ekpa, had unleashed much bloodletting, insecurity, and anguish in Igboland), would stand in an Abuja courtroom, to turn his “Biafra Restoration” criminal enterprise into an Igbo Emancipation Undertaking?
- Comments On The Abuja Courtroom Circus Of Monday, May 20, 2024: Nnamdi Kanu Has Become The Victim Of His Own Designs – May 21, 2024
As a viral video of the trademark Courtroom theatricals from the Abuja Treason Trial of Nnamdi Kanu made the rounds, inquiries from genuinely misinformed members of the public have necessitated this note of clarification, considering the dangers posed by the consequences of the loads of deliberate misinformation that has trailed the trial so far.
Capitalizing on the Ignorance and Gullibility of our People, using the tools of Propaganda, Falsehood, Distortions, Deceit, Photoshopping, Blackmail, and Violence; AND Leveraging massively on the Goodwill and Unyielding Sentiments for the Restoration of what in their imagination, was a Lost Paradise called “Biafra”, the Treasure-Hunting, Fame-Seeking, and Bloodthirsty Criminal surrounded himself with Dishonest, Mediocre Lawyers who, like him, were Fame-and-Fortune-Seekers. (Particularly Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Alloy Ejimakor, Maxwell Okpara, and Mike Ozekhome).
Cheered on rancorously and obdurately by the IPOB noise machinery and with funding from grossly ill-informed Igbo Diaspora, in the US, Europe, and Asia, these Lawyers connived with their conman-client, to mislead both the hoodwinked IPOB and the general public on the facts and issues of the matter before the Courts; a Compromised and Incompetent Media completed the circuit and so Nnamdi Kanu had been riding on the waves of this cocktail of lies and self-delusion, resulting in the miserable and disgraceful court-room circus of Monday, May 20, 2024.
Here is a clarification note that preceded the Supreme Court Decision of December 2023 which transmitted the Matter back to the Federal High Court for Trial after years of stalling the proceedings with multiple interlocutory appeals. Beyond the vaulting grandstanding and Courtroom theatricals, those who wish to understand what is actually before the Federal High Court in Abuja and therefore what lies ahead for all sides will do well to examine this Note of Clarification spotlighting the deliberate obfuscation of the case by the Legal Defense Team, led by Mike Ozekhome at the December 2023 date of that Note of Clarification:
Ozekhome And Other Lawyers On Nnamdi Kanu’s Defence Team Are Deliberately Misleading Ignorant IPOB Members And The Public On The Nature Of The Matter Before The Supreme Court – December 9, 2023.
In the trademark propaganda for which IPOB has acquired immense notoriety, the false impression is being deliberately created all over the Internet that the Supreme Court of Nigeria will on the 15th of December 2023, release Nnamdi Kanu, pursuant to a Judgement by the Court of Appeal, discharging the accused.
While many no longer bother with IPOB’s self-defeating propaganda and falsehoods, it is alarming that a Lawyer like Mike Ozekhome will lend himself to the kind of deliberate falsehood the IPOB Propaganda machinery has concocted in the matter that went from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court.
Unlike the impression being created all over the internet the matter before the Supreme Court is not whether or not Nnamdi Kanu should be released as a consequence of the outcome of the Ruling of the Court of Appeal which relate to charges emanating from offenses that preceded his 2015 arrest.
The Question before the Supreme Court is whether or not Nnamdi Kanu should face trial for the Charges relating to offenses committed between September 2017 when he fled Nigeria and June 2021 when he was apprehended in Kenya. Everything else is ancillary and mostly propaganda and concoctions orchestrated between the Legal Defense Team, the IPOB, and the irresponsible Media collaborators in the dangerous mischief in deceit.
Here is how the matter got to the Supreme Court and what the issues are:
The matter that went before the Court of Appeal relates to charges emanating from the offenses that predated the 2015 arrest which had not been tried on account of interlocutory appeals.
What the Court of Appeal DISCHARGED was the balance of those 2015 Charges when the issue of renditioning from Kenya was raised by the Defense Team. However, the Court of Appeal did not ACQUIT the Accused of those Charges.
DISCHARGE on the Technical Ground of Renditioning as was the case in this matter, is different from Acquittal (which can only happen when the charges have been tried). Discharge is not a basis for immediate release from Custody but Acquittal is.
The Defense Team created the impression in the Public space that the Discharge Ordered by the Court was the basis for immediate Release of the Accused and so when that release did not come through, the Defense Team went to the Supreme Court to enforce the release of their client.
In response, the Prosecution presented the Supreme Court with the Charges emanating from offenses relating to the 2017-2021 Period (when IPOB took up arms under its ESN enforcers) which the Prosecution had filed at the Trial Court (Federal High Court) after the 2021 rearrest but which had not been taken up at all by the Federal High Court due to the Interlocutory Appeals that were pending before the Court of Appeal.
The Supreme Court Agreed with the Prosecution that the Charges relating to offenses that occurred between 2017-2021 were different from Charges relating to the 2015 period and therefore the Discharge Order by the Court of Appeal did not affect those Charges relating to the 2017-2021 Period.
The situation summarizes that the Supreme Court would now decide whether or not the Charges emanating from the 2017-2021 Period should be transmitted to the Federal High Court for Trial.
It is unfortunate and regrettable that the Defense Lawyers led by Mike Ozekhome would allow the false impression to be created and maintained, that the Court of Appeal Discharged and Acquitted Nnamdi Kanu and that the Federal Government just refused to let their client go home.
At a time when the credibility of the Supreme Court had been badly battered, the distortion of the issues in the manner that had been done by the Defense Team would only exacerbate the situation in Igboland where Peace and Security had already been ruined by the Propaganda and Sit-At-Home-related Violence of IPOB and its ESN and Unknown Gunmen enforcers.
This deliberate distortion by the Defence Team of Nnamdi Kanu is capable of igniting further Bloodbath in Igboland to the joy of those from afar who seek the destruction of Igboland.
The Danger Posed to Igboland by that Distortion is the reason for this intervention. A look at the events of 1966-1967 and all of what followed for the next 50 years will be the best historical compass for navigating the situation”.
- Simon Ekpa, His Principal, Nnamdi Kanu, And Their Collaborators, Will Be Severely Punished By the Igbo For Deliberately Shedding Igbo Blood In Igboland In Pursuit Of The Hollow Scam They Tagged “Biafra Restoration”, The Pains They Inflicted On The Igbo And For The Debilitating Setbacks They Caused The Greater Eastern Nigeria Liberation Campaign. – September 19, 2024.
(This Note of Caution is issued on behalf of the Igbo Caucus or the LNC in the NINAS Alliance)
The attention of the LNC Secretariat has been drawn to a podcast circulating on social media in which the Semi-literate Simon Ekpa was announcing yet again, another Declaration of Biafra after several such declarations across the last 20 years by various Biafra Groups including Uwazuruike’s MASSOB, Benjamin Onwuka’s Biafra Zionist Movement, Enekwechi’s Biafra Government in Exile. and Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB.
When the tedious and painstaking task of toppling the occupation Unitary Rogue State and the restoration of the Sovereignties confiscated by that Unitary State to the Peoples of Nigeria is completed, Simon Ekpa, Nnamdi Kanu, and the rest of the clear-minded criminals and freedom merchants who, in pursuit of the hollow scam they tagged “Biafra Restoration”, deliberately shed the blood of our People in Igboland, inflicting so much pain torment and dislocation in the process, will be punished severely for orchestrating so much mayhem in Igboland and for causing setbacks and debilitation for the painstaking Liberation Campaign that successfully Identified, Isolated, Criminalized and Incapacitated the monstrous Enemy, defeating both the Constitutional Instrument by which that monster prevailed for decades, and the enforcers of that Instrument.
It is tragic and very saddening that there are still Igbo people with education and exposure, who are daft enough to continue to spread the hollow “Biafra Restoration” propaganda of Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa.
In the face of all the information available on the subject, it takes criminal-level ignorance and naivety not to know that these Chief-Merchants of the Rogue Biafra Franchise are only using the Biafra Nametag to seek quick wealth and instant fame from the comfort and safety of their Transatlantic abodes, tapping into the almost inexhaustible pool of goodwill and deep sentiments attached to the Biafra name and phenomenon to extort money from the Traumatized and Unsuspecting Igbo Worldwide, whilst deceiving the largely ill-informed young people in the Igbo Homeland to lay down their lives for the coming of a phantom Biafra.
In that nefarious undertaking, these criminals operating under the banners of IPOB, ESN, and UGM, provided ample justification and opened up Igboland for agents of Unitary Nigeria, in and out of uniform, to move in and openly resume the 1966-1970 Genocide that was temporarily shifted to the Economic Front since the January 1970 cessation of hostilities in the Battlefields of Biafra.
Beyond Internet noise and callous bloodletting in Igboland in the stupid hope of violently establishing some kind of “supremacy” in Igboland, while the Nigerian State Operates freely in our space, advancing its Conquest Mission by which our Sovereignty has since been subjugated and subsumed into the Rogue Unitary State of since the 1967 Demise of the Federation of Nigeria.
One would challenge those who spread the “Biafra Restoration” propaganda of Simon Ekpa and his principal, to present to the Public, the Exact Territorial Map of the Biafra they are restoring and to also furnish the evidence of the new Understandings reached with the non-Igbo constituent peoples of 1967 Biafra (Niger-Delta, if you like), who for a combination of reasons (including British-Caliphate Manipulations), did not go with the Biafra of 1967. They should also furnish evidence of the Grand Strategy by which they intend to oust the ironclad Unitary Constitution by which Nigeria’s Death-Grip and Stranglehold on Igboland are being maintained, as well as evidence of their designs around well-known International Imperatives, beyond photoshopped claims for which both Simon Ekpa and his principal, Nnamdi Kanu have become notorious.
Until these materials are furnished in the public space by the proponents and promoters of this nauseating bogus Biafra Restoration scam, the clarity, honesty, motive, and even sanity of such proponents and promoters will remain in doubt and let it be known that the punishment that will be meted out to the Criminal Freedom-Merchants will extend to such proponents and promoters.
Like all their other unintelligent claims, distortions disinformation, and propaganda, the story and circumstances of the Latvia-Lithuania-Estonia decoupling from the Defunct Soviet Union at the Moscow-orchestrated Disintegration of Soviet Union is too well-known to be used by anyone to deceive others into thinking that there was some kind of parallel that could be drawn with the foolhardy Biafra Restoration scam of IPOB. Nothing in common at all.
Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania existed as Sovereign States for decades before their Annexation into the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union unraveled at the twilight of the Cold War in 1990, those Former Soviet Republics numbering 15 in all, including Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, and Ukraine, simply decoupled themselves from the Defunct Soviet Union.
In the case of Biafra of 1967, there was no Country with clear boundaries in recent history, that was known as and operated as the Republic of Biafra prior to the emergence of Nigeria in 1914.
Secondly, the Biafra of 1967 which was declared on May 30, 1967, was blocked by Nigeria and Britain from seceding from Nigeria by War, with Nigeria’s May 27, 1967, strategic pre-emptive action of breaking up the Eastern Region of the time into three States (Rivers State – now Rivers and Bayelsa, South-East State – now Cross-River and Akwa-Ibom and East-Central State – now Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo).
The attempt by the embattled Eastern Region to declare and sustain itself as the Republic of Biafra was crushed by the 1967 Alliance of the rest of Nigeria, led by Britain. That attempt collapsed and was formally called off and expressly abandoned, on January 15, 1970, by the Deed of Surrender signed on behalf of Biafra by General Philip Effiong who was the Biafra Acting Head of State at the exit of General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu from the Biafra Territory. The May 27, 1967 Fracturing of Eastern Region into Three States effectively rendered the attempt at secession controversial and unsettled. To date, the contention of the Non-Igbo Constituent Peoples of 1966 Eastern Region is that their Territories were never a part of the short-lived Biafra of May 30, 1967- January 15, 1970, as those Territories were on May 27, 1967, separated into States of their own ahead of the May 30, 1967 Declaration of the Republic of Biafra.
As Mischievous and unpalatable as this contention may be, it is factually correct, but unfortunate because People from those Eastern Region Territories were Massacred along with Igbo in the 1966 Pogroms that prompted the May 30, 1967, Declaration of itself as the Republic of Biafra by Eastern Region in a Self-Preservation bid.
It is therefore utterly ignorant and dishonest for Simon Ekpa and his co-travellers to seek to draw some kind of parallel between the case of Latvia and that of 1967 Biafra.
- Unless The Igbo Leadership Collective Finds The Courage To Disown And Repudiate In Its Entirety, The Totally Meaningless “Biafra Restoration” Scam Of IPOB And Other “Biafra” Franchise Brands, Igboland Will Sink Deeper Into Ruins Until It Is Completely Destroyed, While The Criminal Merchants Operating The Rogue Global Biafra Franchise Continue To Play Russian Roulette With The Lives And Livelihoods Of Millions Of People.
“The Genealogy of Mayhem in Igboland.
Nnamdi Kanu begat IPOB. IPOB begat ESN. ESN begat Unknown Gunmen. Unknown Gunmen, enforcing IPOB’s Sit-At-Home hokum, begat the Mayhem raging like wildfire in Igboland. Igbo either calls off the rogue Biafra Restoration scam in its entirety or the Rogue Biafra Franchise will set Igboland ablaze”.On account of deadly fights over the control of the Franchise Purse, the Rogue Biafra Franchise operated under the amorphous codenames and overlapping brands including “IPOB”, “ESN”, and “Unknown Gunmen” is presently fractured into no less than Five Factions, run as armed street gangs, some of which include the Chika Edozie’s DOS-Controlled, Simon Ekpa’s Autopilot, Dr. Nelly Ofoegbu’s “Idu” (the new name for her faction of Biafra), Emma Powerful, Emmanuel Kanu (alias Fineboy, Nnamdi Kanu’s younger brother who inserts himself into the role of some kind of second-in-command position to the utmost chagrin of the offer IPOB factions), Chinasa Nworu (most notorious for Murderous exploits of his faction of the street-gang Franchise) amongst many others.
At a time when the December 16, 2020, Union Dispute declared to force the resolution of the Sovereignty Question amongst the Constituent Components of the Failed Nigerian Union, the Igbo Leadership Collective must find a way to loudly repudiate the totally meaningless “Biafra Restoration” gambit that has rendered Igboland bloodsoaked and near-desolate, otherwise the Caliphate enemy and their local collaborators from the coastal East that sought our extermination between 1966-1970 will operate under the limitless license of “Unknown Gunmen” offered them in Igboland by the Rogue Biafra Franchise.
Nnamdi Kanu Publicly Presented Simon Ekpa, as his Rep for all purposes In Live Broadcast.
Nnamdi Kanu Mandating the Violent Enforcement of Sit-At-Home In All Markets in Igboland.