Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD, a pro-democracy, human and environmental rights advocacy group has called on the Attorney General, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN to produce separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu at the court for the preliminary hearing of his case, slated for October 21, 2021.
This is even as the the DSS failed to produce the separatist leader before the Justice Binta Nyako court on July 26, 2021, an incident FENRAD says further escalated the tension in the Southeast as many among Kanu’s supporters feared that their leader had come to harm.
Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advocacy and Development, FENRAD
Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advocacy and Development, FENRAD
FENRAD recounted that, according to the Attorney General, Kanu was ‘intercepted’ and ‘rearrested’ in an undisclosed country after he fled Nigeria, consequent on military attack, during the operation codenamed ‘Python Dance.
In a statement co-signed Comrd. Nelson Nnanna Nwafor Executive Director and Barr. Akande Femisi
Head Corporate Accountability and Human Rights Enforcement and made available to Famousreporters.com today.
Below is the full release:
Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD, a pro-democracy, human and environmental rights advocacy group has called on the Attorney General, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN to produce separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu at the court come October 21, 2021, which is the day for the preliminary hearing of his case after the DSS failed to produce the separatist leader before the Justice Binta Nyako court on July 26, 2021, an incident FENRAD says further escalated the tension in the Southeast as many among Kanu’s supporters feared that their leader had come to harm.
Kanu, FENRAD recalls, was, in the words of the Attorney General, ‘intercepted’ and ‘rearrested’ in an undisclosed country after he fled Nigeria following military attack, during the operation codenamed ‘Python Dance,’ on his home and father’s palace at Afara Ibeku, Umuahia while still answering to allegations preferred against him bordering on treasonable felony.
Detained Kanu who now faces an eleven-count charge since his ‘rearrest’ and trial by an Abuja-based court on June 29, 2021, where also his case was adjourned until July 26, has never made a court appearance. FENRAD also recalls how his team of lawyers initially lamented lack of access to their client at the DSS facility a situation which led one of his lawyers, Maxwell Opara to file a fresh suit against the DSS over rights abuse when the lawyer was forced to remove his wears including medicated glasses.
