Nnamdi Kanu is a hostage no more a suspect due to the lawlessness and stupidity of government from Seriki Integrity Buhari to Babu Integrity Tinubu regime. Even if Kanu had killed a million citizens, trafficked in hard drugs, involved in certificate forgery, yahoo, kidnapping or identity theft, he remains a suspect who must have his case in court for fair hearing not fear hearing in a judicious court without any delay because justice delayed is justice denied That’s the normal process in a civil rule.
Good enough that Kanu was charged to court initially as a suspect, released on bail. He was to have his day in court again before armed military of Seriki Integrity Buhari regime stormed his residence to kill and main people and suspect Kanu escaped abroad to become more virulent. At that point, he’s no more a suspect having confidence in the legal process of Nigeria but a target for murder by the same regime that indulged many free killing violent Fulani herdsmen who invaded farms, villages, killed people and boasted about it.
The dangerously nepotistic Seriki Integrity regime, to justify the pampering of his tribesmen’s criminals started negotiating with them and promoted them as “repentant terrorists” after mindless killing thousands of citizens across the country especially in the north, and at times, shown on video to assault our sensibilities and powerlessness of the regime if not complicity in the bloody unrepentant attacks and kidnapping at will. All these happened before our “very eyes”
The moment Seriki Integrity – Babu Integrity regimes had refused to obey several court orders to release Kanu but instead rolled out another set of criminal charges against him, they showed their lawlessness and biases on the trial. By this, they turned the suspect who could have had his days in court, jailed, sentenced to death or released, into their own captive for whatever reasons thereby raising ethnic, tribal, political, religious sentiments and more sympathy for Kanu because of how his trial was and is still being mismaged for almost ten years.
What I don’t understand about those who are vehemently opposed to Kanu’s release from prison and from clumsy court trial is that they have refused to give sensible alternative ways to this government’s caused long judicial trial deadlock beyond expressing anger, and anger alone constitutes no fair or fear court trial or sentence. Should Kanu be imprisoned indefinitely while the government continue to disobey court orders or delay his trial?
Should he be thrown into the jungle to feed wild animals? Or should he be thrown into the lagoon to feed sharks? No concrete opinion has been made beyond anger expression in a country where drug barons, terrorists, kidnappers, certificate forgers, identity thieves, accredited high profile corrupt leaders, political killers, election riggers and different kinds of “Janduku” are being pardoned or ruling the nation at all levels of governance.
Government and its security agencies have discredited themselves and the trials and by extension have discredited the judiciary with the ways the Kanu case, which ordinarily shouldn’t be more than three years of trial, was handled and still being handled. In a civil rule, protest is legitimate, it’s the needed oxygen for democracy to grow. I wonder why police who are invited to secure the Free Kanu protesters say they cannot guarantee their security and safety but can guarantee the safety of anti-Kanu protesters. That’s an open indictment of bias and a self ridicule before the world.
The two options before government now having messed up the Kanu trial for so long, is to free him or get a “Justice Abenilori” to order Kanu’s head be cut immediately, judiciously or non – judiciously. An end must come to this case because there’s no case tried Forever.
Pa. Adeola Soetan
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