Ejimakor said the spike in level of insecurity in Southeast region anytime Kanu’s case would come up in court seemed to be a well-orchestrated effort by disparate criminal elements and their sponsors to influence the Presidency and the court into further keeping Kanu in detention.
Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has accused the Nigerian government of detaining the IPOB leader based on a ‘manipulation game of guilty by association’.
Ejimakor said the spike in level of insecurity in Southeast region anytime Kanu’s case would come up in court seemed to be a well-orchestrated effort by disparate criminal elements and their sponsors to influence the Presidency and the court into further keeping Kanu in detention.
According to Ejimakor, the Nigerian government has continued to attribute the activities of criminals, murderers and kidnappers to IPOB without any investigation or credible evidence.
He noted that it was aimed at complicating the pursuit of justice for Kanu.
He said, “The now predictable spike in insecurity (in Southeast) anytime the court date of Nnamdi Kanu is approaching appears to be a well-orchestrated effort by disparate criminal elements and their sponsors to influence the Presidency and the Court into not freeing Kanu from what has, by the dint of the Supreme Court judgment, degenerated to extra-constitutional detention.
“These false flags are thinly disguised maneuvers to cast IPOB and Kanu in bad light. It's an ancient mind manipulation game called ‘guilty by association’, all aimed at complicating the pursuit of justice for Kanu.”
According to him, “the Fifth Columnists appear to have forgotten that MNK had, on one of his recent court appearances, challenged the Federal Government to release him and see if insecurity in the Southeast will not end in 2 minutes”.
He said, “By refusing to take MNK at his word, the lives lost between the last court hearing and still counting must be blamed on those that are blocking the release of MNK.
“In reality, these people are the true merchants of the insecurity in Southeast, not MNK or IPOB. And the question to ask is this: Why must the activities of criminals, murderers and kidnappers be attributed to IPOB without any investigation, without any credible evidence?”