Buhari — not me –- should be detained for disobeying court order–Nnamdi Kanu

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB), says President Muhammadu Buhari and Lawal Daura,
director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS), should
be detained for disobeying court orders.

In an interview with The Sun,
Kanu recalled how the federal government refused to release him
after the court ordered that he should be set free.

He told those calling for his arrest to demand that the
president should be detained.

“President Muhammadu Buhari was the one who broke the laws, he
disobeyed the direct court order to release me unconditionally, not
once, but twice,” he said.

“Honourable Shuaibu of Wuse magistrate court granted me bail,
Buhari did not release me. Hon Justice Ademola granted me
unconditional bail, Buhari and his cousin, Lawal Daura refused to
honour that court order.

“They are the ones who should be detained for flagrant
disobedience to court orders. I want the northern Arewa
irredentists to call for the arrest of Buhari and Daura for
flouting court order after court order, asking for my release.

“It smacks of hypocrisy and absolute cowardice that people who
could not rise up in defence of the law when a court made a
judicial pronouncement are now clamouring for my arrest because
they believe it is easy to do so. Before now, Nnamdi Kanu is Igbo,
he is a Biafran and can be arrested and nothing will happen but
that would not be anymore, it would no longer happen.”

Kanu also boasted that the country would but if the federal
government re-arrest him.

Last week, the government approached a court in Abuja to seek
the revocation of Kanu’s bail on the grounds that he had violated
the conditions under which he was released.

Binta Nyako, a judge of the federal high court in Abuja, who set
the agitator free after 18 months in detention, ordered him not to
grant press interviews and to avoid being seen in a crowd of more
than 10 people.

But Kanu has since violated the bail conditions.

In the interview, he wondered why no attempt has been made to
arrest the Arewa youth who gave the quit notice to the Igbo
resident in the north.

“Quote me verbatim. If I’m rearrested, this country will burn, I
assure you,” he said.

”From where that oil money they depend on, they can no longer
have access to it. I assure them that. This is not empty
threat.

”We’re IPOB, we don’t abandon our own.”

Asked why he has been violating the bail conditions, he said:
“Are you talking about an illegal and unconstitutional bail
condition?  A bail condition designed to emasculate and
basically render IPOB impotent? Does anyone seriously think I’m
going to stand for IPOB to be rendered desolate?

“I can’t allow that to happen, I have not violated any laws
unknown to the Nigerian judicial establishment. I have not
committed any offence; no crime whatsoever. I said no crime. It is
a violation of my right to ask me not to speak; to ask me not to be
in a congregation of not more than 10 people, an absolute violation
of articles enshrined in the constitution that I expect all and
sundry to be rising up in defence of, not trying to justify the
erosion of my fundamental human rights to speak, to be heard and to
associate.”

He insisted that the Anambra governorship election will not
hold, calling on his supporters to boycott the exercise.

“I gave a speech in Aba, Abia state on Sunday and I made it
absolutely clear that the boycott stays,” he said.

“We must boycott the election in Anambra state. It is our
civic responsibility to do so and that’s what we are going to do –
total and absolute boycott, to let the whole world understand the
strength of IPOB on the ground, in Anambra state.”

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB), says President Muhammadu Buhari and Lawal Daura,
director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS), should
be detained for disobeying court orders.

In an interview with The Sun,
Kanu recalled how the federal government refused to release him
after the court ordered that he should be set free.

He told those calling for his arrest to demand that the
president should be detained.

“President Muhammadu Buhari was the one who broke the laws, he
disobeyed the direct court order to release me unconditionally, not
once, but twice,” he said.

“Honourable Shuaibu of Wuse magistrate court granted me bail,
Buhari did not release me. Hon Justice Ademola granted me
unconditional bail, Buhari and his cousin, Lawal Daura refused to
honour that court order.

“They are the ones who should be detained for flagrant
disobedience to court orders. I want the northern Arewa
irredentists to call for the arrest of Buhari and Daura for
flouting court order after court order, asking for my release.

“It smacks of hypocrisy and absolute cowardice that people who
could not rise up in defence of the law when a court made a
judicial pronouncement are now clamouring for my arrest because
they believe it is easy to do so. Before now, Nnamdi Kanu is Igbo,
he is a Biafran and can be arrested and nothing will happen but
that would not be anymore, it would no longer happen.”

Kanu also boasted that the country would but if the federal
government re-arrest him.

Last week, the government approached a court in Abuja to seek
the revocation of Kanu’s bail on the grounds that he had violated
the conditions under which he was released.

Binta Nyako, a judge of the federal high court in Abuja, who set
the agitator free after 18 months in detention, ordered him not to
grant press interviews and to avoid being seen in a crowd of more
than 10 people.

But Kanu has since violated the bail conditions.

In the interview, he wondered why no attempt has been made to
arrest the Arewa youth who gave the quit notice to the Igbo
resident in the north.

“Quote me verbatim. If I’m rearrested, this country will burn, I
assure you,” he said.

”From where that oil money they depend on, they can no longer
have access to it. I assure them that. This is not empty
threat.

”We’re IPOB, we don’t abandon our own.”

Asked why he has been violating the bail conditions, he said:
“Are you talking about an illegal and unconstitutional bail
condition?  A bail condition designed to emasculate and
basically render IPOB impotent? Does anyone seriously think I’m
going to stand for IPOB to be rendered desolate?

“I can’t allow that to happen, I have not violated any laws
unknown to the Nigerian judicial establishment. I have not
committed any offence; no crime whatsoever. I said no crime. It is
a violation of my right to ask me not to speak; to ask me not to be
in a congregation of not more than 10 people, an absolute violation
of articles enshrined in the constitution that I expect all and
sundry to be rising up in defence of, not trying to justify the
erosion of my fundamental human rights to speak, to be heard and to
associate.”

He insisted that the Anambra governorship election will not
hold, calling on his supporters to boycott the exercise.

“I gave a speech in Aba, Abia state on Sunday and I made it
absolutely clear that the boycott stays,” he said.

“We must boycott the election in Anambra state. It is our
civic responsibility to do so and that’s what we are going to do –
total and absolute boycott, to let the whole world understand the
strength of IPOB on the ground, in Anambra state.”