The late business tycoon kicked the bucket on July 7, 1998, in disputable circumstances while he was confined by the military government.
Kanu's legal advisor, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, made the case at a press preparation on Friday evening. A duplicate of his location was sent to SUNDAY PUNCH.
Ejiofor condemned the security organization and the Federal Government for slighting a few court requests to discharge the star Biafra dissident in spite of meeting his safeguard conditions.
The legal advisor said, "(It is) extremely enlightening to note at this crossroads that we were dependably educated by Nnamdi Kanu that amid the time of his capture and unlawful detainment in the care of the DSS, he was debilitated to be killed by the examining officers, on the off chance that he declined to collaborate with them. He was likewise informed that Abiola was killed in a way that remained covered in mystery; that he would be murdered in comparative way, on the off chance that he declined to drop his disturbance for self-determination.
"He was further educated by the exploring officers that they had the sponsorship and endorsement of forces that be to send him to his grave. Also, accordingly, Nnamdi Kanu guaranteed them that murdering him would not stop the tumult of the Indigenous People of Biafra for self-determination; that slaughtering him in the way being communicated by them would rather pull in the fury of God on the groups of those that execute him; that them as well as their eras unborn will be gone by the rage of God."
That Kanu, who was captured by the DSS on the October 14, 2015, in Lagos on his landing from the United Kingdom, was summoned by the mystery administration under the steady gaze of the Chief Magistrate Court Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on October 19, for charged criminal connivance, overseeing and having a place with an unlawful society, and criminal intimidation in opposition to areas 97, 97B and 397 of the Penal Code.
The court, managed by Justice Shuabi, conceded Kanu abandon that day, while the suspect speedily fulfilled the safeguard conditions however the DSS declined to discharge him, his legal counselor said.
Kanu was accused of treasonable lawful offense under Section 41 of the Criminal Code for purportedly fitting in with and dealing with an unlawful society (IPOB).
His legal advisor however denied the charge, expressing that, "It is of note that Nnamdi Kanu was never gotten or captured with any gun, weapon or ammo of any structure. Radio Biafra and in addition the Indigenous People of Biafra is individually enrolled under the administrative laws of the United Kingdom and United Nations. Endorsements to the impact of these enrollments are in this connected.
"The two dane firearms recorded among their shows and purportedly recouped over the span of their indicated examination at the living arrangement of Benjamin Madubugwu are dane weapons utilized for creature chasing, which are completely authorized. In the genuine feeling of it, can these dane weapons be utilized as a part of demanding war against the state in the way determined under Section 41 of the Criminal Code Act?"
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