19th August 2017
This
has been a silent issue on the lips of the Nigerian people; they have been
perambulating and trotting around that Nnamdi Kanu has violated his bail
conditions. Arewa Youths even staged protest calling for the re-arrest of
Nnamdi Kanu on the ground that he has violated his bail conditions. Recently;
the prosecution has even urged Justice Binta Nyako to revoke Nnamdi Kanu’s bail
as he has not respected the conditions upon which the bail was granted.
The federal government of Nigeria has
signaled that they would use the Court on the assumption of Nnamdi Kanu’s trial
to make the re-arrest happen. This is even as such statement from the Federal
government is nothing but pre-judicial.
The statement will either pile up undue
pressure on the trial Judge to unlawfully re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu. One after
another; the federal government is clearing the path to re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu.
It is imperative we carefully look at the bail conditions; be more direct in
the absence of what Nnamdi Kanu’s re-arrest may result to.
With the already heated polity and fragility
of Nigeria; Nnamdi Kanu’s re-arrest may as well unravel things or groups which
might violently demand his freedom and call for referendum. I have always
posited that Nnamdi Kanu may at a point be unable to control or douse the anger
of the people of Biafra he leads; this will lead to escalation of violence for
the sake of his unacceptable treatment by the Nigerian authority.
The
court by giving Nnamdi Kanu bail conditions may be definite but unrealistic; in
the sense that Nnamdi Kanu’s bail conditions don’t need his consent to be
broken. Nnamdi Kanu did not break his bail conditions rather; the public did
break the conditions. What the court failed to do was to also shield the public
from Nnamdi Kanu. The court made it clear that Nnamdi Kanu should not be in a
crowd exceeding ten, but when Nnamdi Kanu travels to Owerri; millions of people
block his car that he sometimes alight his car and trek to where he wanted to
go.
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The public hears that he is coming to
Ekwulobia; they troop there and wait and he cannot disperse them. Then when he
furthers his journey; one comes from nowhere to say Nnamdi Kanu violated his
bail condition. Nnamdi Kanu is a high profile figure the public cannot overlook
when they get information of his presence anywhere and at this point; house
arrest or continued detention remains the only way to make the condition of not
above ten people a reality.
The
court lost touch with reality when such conditions were given without bringing
in a condition to also shield the impossible ones. The court ought to have
outlined measures to control or wage the public, because they would overwhelm
him even though he only came to see Mr and Mrs Okeke. Nnamdi Kanu has lived his
bail conditions- that he should not grant press interview; since Nnamdi Kanu
was granted bail, he has not called for a press conference and neither has he
spoken on radio Biafra. He has not made a press release regarding the case or
his detention.
The court did not for a day say; if you are
asked question by anybody, don’t reply. Who knows who is a press man and who is
not that when Nnamdi Kanu is asked a question; he answers and the next day, you
see his words with two people in his home in the press. Hence Nnamdi Kanu did
not call for any press briefing or conference; the press man should rather be
held to account if there is a feeling that Nnamdi Kanu has broken the bail
condition of no interviews. Nnamdi Kanu’s bail condition is so complicated that
no human might be able to keep; it is ambiguous that when deeply looked into,
one finds out that he did not or never violated any of his bail conditions. If
Nnamdi Kanu has violated his bail conditions, you would see his social media
accounts retrieved and often hear from him.
You would always hear his voice on radio
Biafra but as far as he has abstained from any form of publicity; he is only
respecting the condition of his bail pending the completion of his trial. Some
have wrongly accused him of holding rallies but that is rather fast and
furious; the Court never asked him not to talk to the public but barred him
from calling press interview/conference and sitting in a crowd above ten which
he has not violated. Nnamdi Kanu when outside his home causes rally; in this
sense, he has not willfully violated any bail condition but facing a situation
beyond him. Who would disperse the crowd struggling to meet him or see his
face? Nnamdi Kanu is even helpless and his bail conditions need to be further
looked into because it is beyond his power to control. Instead of ask the court
to re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu on the basis that he has violated his bail conditions;
the prosecution should rather urge the court to reinforce the conditions
against the people and the press. The reality of the situation is that Nnamdi
Kanu’s fundamental human rights were not taken away by the court and as such,
you cannot arrest him for enjoying his fundamental human rights to speech,
movement etc.
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