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Human rights activistic and publisher, Omoyele Sowore, has demanded the contiguous merchandise of Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to the detained person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, pursuing his apprehension by the constabulary during the #FreeNnamdiKanuProtest successful Abuja.
Ejimakor, on with Fineboy Kanu — a comparative of the IPOB leader — and respective others, was reportedly apprehended by officers of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command during the protestation connected Monday.
Reacting to the arrests, Sowore took to his authoritative X (formerly Twitter) relationship connected Monday to condemn the enactment and pass the constabulary against what helium described arsenic an “illegal detention.”
The activistic threatened that the ‘entire crew’ would beryllium moblised to the FCT bid if Ejimakor and others successful detention are not released.
He wrote: “The @FCT_PoliceNG is instructed to merchandise Barrister @AloyEjimakor, Fineboy Kanu, and others illegally arrested, tortured, and presently being forced into detention implicit #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protestation immediately, oregon we volition mobilize the full unit present connected the thoroughfare to the FCT bid and inhabit their office!”
Earlier, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu connected Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, called connected ineligible regulatory bodies successful Nigeria to authorisation Ejimakor for participating successful the ongoing #FreeNnamdiKanu protest.
According to the statesmanlike aide, Ejimakor’s information successful the protestation undermines ineligible ethics, fixed that Kanu’s lawsuit is inactive earlier a competent court.
“I spotted Aloy Ejimakor, 1 of Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers, among the tiny radical of protesters mobilised successful Abuja by Omoyele Sowore,” Onanuga wrote.
“I wonderment what Mr. Ejimakor was reasoning erstwhile helium decided to articulation this shambolic protest. As a lawyer, helium should beryllium alert of the rule of sub judice, peculiarly successful narration to the ongoing treason lawsuit earlier the court.”
Onanuga noted that the prosecution had already concluded its lawsuit and that it was present the work of Kanu’s ineligible squad to absorption connected presenting a beardown defence alternatively than engaging successful nationalist demonstrations.
“Rather than focusing connected preparing a beardown case, Mr. Ejimakor has resorted to extra-legal tactics, joining a vocation anarchist to power the process. Ejimakor’s enactment questions his adherence to nonrecreational ethics,” helium said.
He urged the applicable ineligible authorities, including the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), to analyse Ejimakor’s behaviour and see due sanctions for what helium described arsenic “unethical behaviour.”
The station Sowore threatens to inhabit FCT constabulary bid implicit apprehension of Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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