Nnamdi Kanu And The Nigerian Body Of Benchers, The Rule Of Law Exchanged For Rule Of Impunity

Nnamdi Kanu And The Nigerian Body Of Benchers, The Rule Of Law Exchanged For Rule Of Impunity  The Nigerian body of benchers is the very leg...

Nnamdi Kanu And The Nigerian Body Of Benchers, The Rule Of Law Exchanged For Rule Of Impunity 

The Nigerian body of benchers is the very legal parastatal responsible for the regulation of lawyers and their professional code of conduct in accordance with the stipulations of the constitution. It is responsible for the admission of new lawyers into the bar of justice administration. 

However, this is very regulatory institution which is tasked in checkmating the professional body language and dispositions of lawyers and justice administration has also been infested the very virus that has eaten across all arms, tiers of government within the Nigerian enclave. 

It does not surprise anyone that the membership decision makers of this judiciary self regulatory body, are same people who are involved in the conspiracy of miscarriage of justice in Nigeria and the twisting of justice into narrative and agenda alignment. 

Precisely, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, and the attorney General of the Federation and a whole host of other shot callers which ramps up well with the agenda of the Nigerian executive class are all part of this body. 

In the case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra(IPOB) movement who has stayed detained in the Nigerian secret police headquarters Abuja for four years without a substantial legal precedence to justify his illegal detention for this long. The Nigerian body of benchers has remained that institution which has consciously failed to discharge its obligation to uphold justice against the downtrodden. 

Quite notably, the judicial prejudice exhibited by the recused Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako has been blatant enough to have attracted the heavy disciplinary hammer of the Nigerian body of benchers but for obvious reasons, this has not been the case. 

It took the concerted effort of the defendant to request for the recusal of biased judge, thank goodness that plea was obliged by the accused with a court order accepting her fate of partial dispositions in discharging her judicial role since her 9-years precedence over  the case of the IPOB Leader. 

But even at that, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court who coincidentally doubles as one of the decision making executive at the Nigerian body of benchers house went on to illegally reassign same case to the desk of the recused judge. Showing and proving a pattern of conspiracy involving not elements of judges cum lawyers but also their superiors who should know better and infact do better. 

This layers of co-conspirators obviously answerable to a single source of command can be summarized as the Deep State of the Nigerian judiciary. 

Be it as it may, the Nigerian judiciary still has some chances to redeem itself from self destruct in order to save the Nigerian enclave from inevitable implosion thereafter. The Nigerian executive system already requires reform if not a total overhaul, and the judiciary still has roles to play to ensure this happens. Though, looking at the current state of affairs of things, it is simply not feasible. 

However one thing should stand clear, that the Nigerian judiciary is already in trial with itself in the case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his Biafra self-determination quest. And, the world is watching keenly. 

His extraordinary rendition four years ago was supposed to herald a calculated beginning of an end of the IPOB-Biafra quest but it did not. Even, with all the state sponsored machinations to create false impressions, scenarios that would bring about the end of the Nnamdi Kanu led agitation for Biafra freedom, did not materialize as predicted or proposed. 

Thus, Mr Kanu stands justified and the Nigerian state, judiciary stands exposed before the global community and audience. The call for the Biafra self-determination will continue to gain more traction and resonate squarely in the minds of the conscientious, as it stands obvious that the Nigerian judiciary has in cahoot with those in power choose to stifle and ruin the legitimate quest of an indigenous people it should have protected and upheld in line with natural, local and international laws. 

The agenda to criminalize the Biafra quest before the eyes of the international community stands exposed to what it truly is. A charade and a dying conspiracy which could not stand the test of time nor that of reason. Mr Kanu and the IPOB movement which he leads stands innocent of the terrorism charges levied against them, because if they were, the Nigerian government would not be involved in the high-level conspiracy with high-low elements in the judiciary to twist justice into impunity. 

And, as the curtain falls off, natural justice would follow suit and take its full course. Mr Kanu will never be vilified instead exalted as the hero and flag bearer of Biafra quest which represents and carries the tears, anguish of the citizens of the Eastern region who believes they have been treated nothing but very quite unfairly in Nigeria since after the surrender of the defunct Biafra Republic of 1970. 

The current quest for Biafra which Mazi Nnamdi Kanu champions serves as the final answer to the plethora of unanswered questions tabled before the Nigerian state. And, as time goes by and Kanu stay incarcerated, this final solution will continue to ricochet in the minds of millions more. 

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