Aloy Ejimofor, special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra, has alleged that his client was chained to the
floor at a private facility when he was arrested in Kenya.
In June, Kanu was arrested and extradited to Nigeria to face
charges of treason.
Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF),
had said the IPOB leader was “intercepted through the collaborative efforts of
Nigerian intelligence and security services”.
Speaking on Kanu’s ordeal in Kenya and how Kanu ended up in
Nigeria, Ejimakor, in a statement on Wednesday, said the IPOB leader, who is
currently in DSS custody, revealed that he was blindfolded and flown to Abuja
on a private jet on Sunday, June 27th, 2021 from Jomo Kenyatta International
Airport, Nairobi and that he was the only passenger onboard.
Ejimakor said he met with Kanu at the DSS headquarters in
Abuja and that the IPOB leader told him he was driven to the airport tarmac
“very close to the plane without passing through the airport immigration”.
“Kanu was in point of fact tortured and subjected to untold
inhuman treatment in Kenya. He said his abductors disclosed to him that they
abducted him at the behest of the Nigerian government,” Ejimakor said.
On whether Kanu had an idea of why he was abducted, the
lawyer replied: “The people never said much on that score except that they were
told he was a Nigerian terrorist linked to the Islamic terrorists in Kenya. But
after they discovered his true identity, they tended to treat him less badly.”
Ejimakor alleged that no warrant of arrest “was shown to
Kanu or even mentioned to him”.
“And for the eight days he was held incommunicado, nothing
of presenting him before a court or transferring him to an official detention
facility was ever mentioned. He was held in a nondescript private facility and
chained to a bare floor,” he said.
At the DSS office, the lawyer said Kanu was interviewed for
the first time “in my presence by three DSS officers”.
“The interview was revealing as it contained certain new
allegations that were never heard of before. But they all relate to his status
as the leader of IPOB,” he added.
Ejimakor said despite what the IPOB leader had gone through,
he was in high spirits and “looked forward to overcoming the extraordinary
rendition that brought him to Nigeria”.
“In my opinion, before any court can subject Kanu to trial,
it has to first conduct a trial within a trial on the grievous incident that
forced Kanu to leave Nigeria and the equally grievous incident that forced him
back to Nigeria.
“No court of law, conscience and equity will overlook those
two incidents and proceed to trial.”
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