The Indigenous People of Biafra
IPOB, on Tuesday described some lawyers serving under the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led Federal Government as misfits who don’t understand how the judiciary
works.
IPOB said the lawyers find joy in
making extra judicial statements capable of influencing the decision of the
courts.
The pro-Biafra group made these
claims while reacting to a statement credited to the presidency that those who
stood as sureties for its leader, Nnmadi Kanu would be arrested if the IPOB
leader fails to appear in court during his next adjourned date.
In a statement by its
spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB lamented that in Nigeria “there is high level
of judicial ignorance where even the Judges are single handedly appointed by
the President of Nigeria.”
The statement reads, “Most of
them do not understand how the judiciary works, but only parade themselves as
legal practitioners, even some who have the badge of Senior Advocates of
Nigeria, SAN, are in the category of legal misfits.
“It is very laughable and
disappointing to discover that even many half-baked legal practitioners in
Nigeria, particularly those in the presidency, serving under the present
administration of All Progressives Congress, APC, government do not understand
how the judiciary works, but only parades themselves as legal practitioners,
and some who have the badge of Senior Advocate of Nigeria; SAN are also in the
category of legal misfits.
“This is evidenced as many people
including legal practitioners of shame do not know that there are powers exercisable
exclusively by the court under a trial Judge such as Justice Binta Nyako.
“It is therefore, an
extra-judicial statement capable of influencing the discretion of the court for
the principal officer of plaintiff like Nigeria Government in the case between
her and Nnamdi Kanu to be heard threatening jail on the sureties of a defendant
by any reason.
“The fact that Nigeria government
sued a person or group of people does not make Nigeria government usurp the
exclusive judicial discretion of the court or the trial Judge. Garba Shehu the
media man in the Presidency of Nigeria was heard threatening jail on the
sureties of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as if he has assumed the position of the trial
Judge in the court.
“We want all and sundry to
understand that the fact that Nigeria government arraigned a defendant does
make Nigeria government a Plaintiff and Judge at the same time in the case. A
Judge has where his or her right begins and ends, a plaintiff no matter how
powerful or influential as he should be, also has where his or her right begins
and ends. So is the defendant has where his or her own right begins and ends.
“Here in Nigeria there is high
level of judicial ignorance where even the Judges are single handedly appointed
by the President of Nigeria, Nigerian government in a case as a plaintiff
orders the court where it is standing as a plaintiff to postpone court sitting
date to suit its convenient time.
“It is important for IPOB to
educate Nigerians to know that it is still in the discretion of Justice Binta Nyako
presided court to tell the world on October 17, 2017 whether it is Nigerian
Army which invaded the compound of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and took him away or his
sureties who were not even consulted by the Army before the extra-judicial
invasion and capturing of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and are in the position to produce
him in the court.
“IPOB has discovered that over
time judicial caricature in Nigeria has made even legal practitioners to lose
understanding of the analysis of the law and decided to follow the part of
lawlessness, that is why many ignorant and legal misfits are heard saying that
a man who Nigeria Army invaded his home and captured is hiding.”
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