Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has offered one million naira to students of Nigerian law school.
Kanu offered the money to any law student who can provide an
authority where a judge granted stay of release of a person acquitted by the
court.
This was disclosed by Kanu’s legal team led by his lead
Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, Jude Ugwuanyi, and Nnaemeka Ejiofor, and Mandela
Umegborogu in Abuja on Tuesday.
Speaking on behalf of the lawyers, Ejiofor said: “Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu pledges to give any law student in any Nigerian University the sum
of One Million (N1, 000, 000.00) Naira if such student finds any precedent on
stay of execution in criminal proceedings where an acquitted person is by such
order restrained from enjoying his freedom.
“It is an illegality that would hunt Nigeria for as long as
life endures. But then, it was granted because Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is of Igbo
descendants and must suffer, notwithstanding what the law says.”
The legal team also insisted that Kanu’s contentious detention
was illegal and without any court backing.
He added: “It is noteworthy that Onyendu’s continual
detention at the Department of State Security Service is illegal and not
predicated on any court Order. Recall that Onyendu was remanded on the purport
that Onyendu jumped bail.
“By the decision of the Court of Appeal, all the charges for
which Onyendu is being tried were quashed for want of jurisdiction and in
violation of the Extradition Acts of both Kenya and Nigeria.
“Justice Tsamani of the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division
unlawfully granted an Order staying the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“This order was illegally granted and never in the history
of any country’s jurisprudence had an acquitted person been denied his release
from detention by way of stay of execution.”
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