Buhari Snubs High Court Order; Gives Fresh Conditions to Release Nnamdi Kanu
The
rule of law and the constitutionalism have finally been nailed to the
coffin in Nigeria by President Mohammadu Buhari. Throughout the history
of democracy, rule of law and constitutionalism in the country, be they
parliamentary or presidential, Nigeria had never experienced the
kind of insult, mockery and bastardization it presently experiences
under barely seven months old Presidency of Retired Maj. General
Muhammadu Buhari.
Human rights records of the present administration are also
negatively alarming, shocking and deafening. All the third generations
of human rights (civil, political, economic, social, cultural,
environmental and development/community rights) are observed in gross
breach by the Buhari administration. Nigerian Judiciary under his
administration is no longer the bastion of democracy and last hope of
the common man. It is now a leprous arm of government; being mocked and
cajoled from left, right and center. A civilian government that makes
mockery of and disobeys the rule of law and constitutionalism is worse
than a mad man running amok with a sharp dagger in a crowded market
place.
Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is today, made a prisoner of conscience by President Muhammadu Buhari and his DSS. The President and his DSS had in the past sixty days, flouted and gravely disobeyed four express and consequential orders of the Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court and the Federal High Court, Abuja Division bordering on Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s constitutional rights to personal liberty, association, assembly, dignity of human person, life and expression.
Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is today, made a prisoner of conscience by President Muhammadu Buhari and his DSS. The President and his DSS had in the past sixty days, flouted and gravely disobeyed four express and consequential orders of the Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court and the Federal High Court, Abuja Division bordering on Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s constitutional rights to personal liberty, association, assembly, dignity of human person, life and expression.
It is freshly recalled that on 19th October 2015, His Worship, Hon Shaibu Usman of the Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court in Abuja granted conditional bail to Citizen Nnamdi Kanu and on 22nd October 2015, all the bail conditions were fulfilled; but the DSS refused to release him on bail; claiming it was acting based on personal directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Magistrate Court order for his bail was followed by two other consequential orders, which were also fragrantly disobeyed by the same DSS. On 18th November 2015, the DSS told the Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court that it had on 10th November 2015 secured an ex parte order from the Federal High Court, Abuja Division to detain Citizen Nnamdi Kanu for ninety days for the purpose of investigating him for terrorism and terrorism financing; using the flawed defense of unconstitutional Section 27 (1) of the Terror Act of 2011 as amended.
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