The banned Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has challenged the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, to tell Nigerians under which law Nnamdi Kanu is being prosecuted.
IPOB issued the challenge on Thursday in a statement released by its spokesman, Emma Powerful.
The call is coming after Kanu refused to enter his defence in his ongoing terrorism trial.
The IPOB leader is insisting that the federal government has no case against him.
IPOB, in the statement signed by Powerful, said instead of persons who don’t understand the law commenting on Kanu’s case on television and on social media, the NBA should take up the assignment of telling Nigerians the law under which the Biafra agitator is being prosecuted.
The separatist group noted that it is pertinent for the NBA to take up the role because the court has refused to explain the law under which it is prosecuting Kanu.
The pro-Biafra organization stressed that the law under which Kanu was charged had been repealed.
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“Let the NBA, as the supposed guardian of legal conscience in Nigeria, tell the world under what extant and subsisting law Nnamdi Kanu is being tried today. Just one question. Not two. Not three. Under what law?
“Because the last time we checked, the law under which he was allegedly charged has been repealed. And the court itself seems too shy or too complicit to admit that elementary fact.
“So, instead of entertaining retired commentators, recycled legal analysts, and political errand boys who can barely interpret a traffic sign, the NBA should kindly step forward and help Nigerians understand what law is actually in operation here.
“If the judiciary won’t say it, the NBA should. Unless, of course, they too have decided that the rule of law is now a suggestion, not a standard.
“We are not asking for magic. We are asking for truth—the same truth the NBA once claimed to defend. The world is watching, and history is taking notes,” the statement said.
