Lawyer Condemns Court Ruling Linking Nnamdi Kanu’s Broadcasts to South-East Violence

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Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, former Special Counsel to Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed disagreement with a Federal High Court ruling that linked Kanu’s broadcasts to violence in Nigeria’s South-East region.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Morning Brief, Ejimakor described the judgment by Justice James Omotosho as “very unfortunate and highly regrettable,” particularly given the human toll of insecurity in the region.

“It is very unfortunate and highly regrettable, and I feel very sad that a lot of innocent lives, the lives of security officers and so on, were lost in the South-East,” he said.

“But the evidence laid before the court failed to make a clear connection between Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s broadcast and the act of violence or so-called act of terrorism that occurred in the South-East that led to loss of lives.”

Ejimakor emphasised that acknowledging the deaths should not be seen as downplaying the tragedy:

“It is not insensitive to say that anybody who would not be touched by the lives lost in the South-East or in any other part of Nigeria due to insecurity would be very insensitive.”

He stressed that criminal liability must be based on clear, established evidence:

“But by God Almighty, before we crucify a man or convict a man for that, we have to draw a clear parallel, a clear connection between what Mazi Nnamdi Kanu said and the loss of those lives.”

To illustrate his point, Ejimakor cited an adage:

“If a witch cries at night and a baby dies in the morning, it doesn’t mean that it is the witch who killed the baby.”

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Lawyer Condemns Court Ruling Linking Nnamdi Kanu’s Broadcasts to South-East Violence

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