Terrorism : Only Court Can Decide Nnamdi Kanu’s Fate – AGF

The Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, says the offence on which the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu is being tried in court is a difficult one and can only be resolved by a competent court of law.

The AGF stated this in Abuja while responding to questions at the Sectoral Ministerial Briefing on the first anniversary of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Fagbemi said the situation surrounding Kanu’s case is different from that of the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore.

“There is a remarkable difference between Kanu’s case and that of the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore,” whom he had freed from further prosecution.

Fagbemi SAN said, “Sowore and Kanu are not the same, when it comes to the first one I didn’t have difficulty to say go, but I have difficulty with the second one”.

While pointing out that Kanu is being held in accordance with the Constitution, he observed that, “the matter is still in court, let’s wait for the court”.

Sowore was arrested in 2019 and prosecuted for allegedly calling for the forceful take over of the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.

However, the federal government, through the office of the AGF in February this year, filed a notice of discontinuance of the case.

On the continued abduction of journalists by security agencies, the Attorney General of the Federation said that ‘arrest’ should be the appropriate word not ‘abduction’ .

He said that no security agency is allowed by the Constitution to abduct citizens but to arrest the suspect of any crime and that those arrested must be within the law.

“Whether a journalist was involved or not, no one will be held outside the laws of the country”.

“You don’t rationalize justice, you dispense it. If people deserve to be released, you release them.”

Garry Ochigbo, Edited By Grace Namiji