I Won’t Return To Court For Trial, Says IPOB Leader Kanu

I won’t return to court for trial, says IPOB leader Kanu

LEADER
of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has
vowed not to return to the Federal High Court in Abuja where he was
standing trial before he fled the country.

The Federal Government
had charged him with treason, but Binta Nyako, a judge of the Federal
High Court in Abuja, granted him bail after 18 months in detention.

The
Cable reported yesterday that Kanu had flouted all the terms of the
bail before troops invaded his Abia residence on September 14, 2017.

He fled afterwards and resurfaced in Jerusalem on Friday.

In a broadcast via the pirate Radio Biafra Kanu boasted that the Nigerian court lacks the capacity to try him.

He said the judge who has asked his sureties to produce him should have asked the army why they invaded his residence.

Kanu
was quoted as saying: “Nigerian court is a Kangaroo court. I did not
jump bail, I left because the court failed to protect me.

“I
shall not be honouring the court. I cannot be tried by a court I do not
recognise. Nigeria cannot jail me. I will fight till the last day. Till
now, Binta Nyanko’s court is yet to hold a hearing on about the
circumstances that led the Nigerian army to come to my house to kill 28
people.

“Only upon a clear pronouncement of the intentions of
that very court which I suggest to them should be free, will this very
case move forward.

“Going forward, there must be guarantee from
the international community so that this case can proceed and I will
prove once and for all that there is something fundamentally wrong with
the brains of those that rule Nigeria.”

He narrated how he escaped during the invasion, saying 28 people who defended him were killed.

Kanu said the intelligence arm of the outlawed Biafra group also prevented the military from getting hold of him.

He
said: “Two jets were hovering over and they stormed the compound and I
sustained several injuries and in the process of trying to defend me, 28
men fell.

“The sole purpose of that evil dance was to kill me
and members of my family. They didn’t want me to go to Abuja because
they didn’t have any case against me.

“They were afraid they
would be disgraced before the world. They decided to eliminate me
instead. They know if I go to court, that very country will not be the
same again.

“I am Nnamdi Kanu, no mortal flesh can kill me. They
have not given birth to that very person. Since they didn’t want me to
come to court, I shall come back to Biafra land. There is nobody who can
accuse IPOB of engaging in any form of lawlessness. I am in Israel.

“This
same court that granted me bail stood by and watched as the army
disobeyed court order. The army in contempt of court court came to kill
me.

“I was in my home preparing to go to Abuja for my case when
they came to kill me. They even killed Jack, our dog. They killed my
cousin, Adaku and 28 others. The notion that I jumped bail is a fallacy,
a lie and a deceit. It is untenable in law.

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