Aloy Ejimakor, the special counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has urged President Bola Tinubu not to follow in the footsteps of former President Muhammadu Buhari with regards to the order of the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group to release the IPOB leader.
The counsel urged the president to rather implement the UN’s orders to release Kanu and set a new precedent. This was said in a statement released on Saturday by the IPOB leader’s attorney.
Since June 2021, Kanu has been under the custody of the Department of State Services. In a historic ruling published by its Working Group in July 2022, the UNHRC ordered Buhari’s government to release Kanu. In addition, the organization requested that the former president provide him with a compensation pathway for Kanu’s detention and extradition from Kenya to Nigeria.
Ejimakor cited the ruling on Kanu’s freedom and stated that because of the nation’s membership in international laws and treaties, the Federal Government was subject to their directives and decrees.
Ejimakor said, “Nigeria is duty-bound to implement this decision in its black letters and spirit. And it was expected to do so promptly.
“Nonetheless, it is never too late to act, even as Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has, for three and a half years, endured the horrendous rigours of a detention that is bereft of any legal justification.”
The lawyer called on Tinubu to free Kanu, saying the president did not need any court order to let the IPOB leader regain his freedom.
