Leader
of the Independent Peoples of Biafra and founder of Radio Biafra, Mr.
Nnamdi Kanu, has accused officials of the Department of State Services
of threatening to kill him like the winner of the annulled June 12,
1993, presidential election, Chief M.K.O Abiola.
The late business mogul died on July 7, 1998, in controversial circumstances while he was detained by the military government.
Kanu’s lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, made the claim at a press briefing on Friday evening. .
Ejiofor
criticised the security agency and the Federal Government for
disregarding several court orders to release the pro-Biafra activist
despite meeting his bail conditions.
The
lawyer said, “(It is) very instructive to note at this juncture that we
were reliably informed by Nnamdi Kanu that during the period of his
arrest and unlawful incarceration in the custody of the DSS, he was
threatened to be killed by the investigating officers, if he refused to
cooperate with them. He was also told that Abiola was murdered in a
manner that remained shrouded in secrecy; that he would be killed in
similar manner, if he refused to drop his agitation for
self-determination.
“He
was further informed by the investigating officers that they had the
backing and approval of powers that be to send him to his grave. And in
response, Nnamdi Kanu assured them that killing him would not stop the
agitation of the Indigenous People of Biafra for self-determination;
that killing him in the manner being expressed by them would rather
attract the wrath of God on the families of those that kill him; that
not only them but their generations unborn will be visited by the wrath
of God.”
That
Kanu, who was arrested by the DSS on the October 14, 2015, in Lagos on
his arrival from the United Kingdom, was arraigned by the secret service
before the Chief Magistrate Court Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on October 19,
for alleged criminal conspiracy, managing and belonging to an unlawful
society, and criminal intimidation contrary to sections 97, 97B and 397
of the Penal Code.
The
court, presided over by Justice Shuabi, granted Kanu bail on the same
day, while the suspect promptly satisfied the bail conditions but the
DSS refused to release him, his lawyer said.
Kanu
was charged with treasonable felony under Section 41 of the Criminal
Code for allegedly belonging to and managing an unlawful society (IPOB).
His
lawyer however denied the allegation, stating that, “It is of note that
Nnamdi Kanu was never caught or arrested with any firearm, weapon or
ammunition of any form. Radio Biafra as well as the Indigenous People of
Biafra is respectively registered under the regulatory laws of the
United Kingdom and United Nations. Certificates to the effect of these
registrations are herein attached.
“The
two dane guns listed among their exhibits and purportedly recovered in
the course of their purported investigation at the residence of Benjamin
Madubugwu are dane guns used for animal hunting, which are fully
licensed. In the real sense of it, can these dane guns be used in
levying war against the state in the manner specified under Section 41
of the Criminal Code Act?”
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