The Legal Department of the American Veterans of Igbo Descent has faulted the ruling of Justice James Omotosho on the no case submission of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Recall that Justice Omotosho in his ruling on Friday declared that the Department of State Security Services had established a concrete case against Kanu which he need to defend.
The Legal Department of the American Veterans of Igbo Descent, under the authority of its president, Dr. Sylvester Onyia, on Sunday said the ruling remains one of the most troubling examples of judicial dereliction in recent memory.
It posited that the Judge failed to read the regulating statutes, the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015 and the Evidence Act 2011, accusing the judge of being afraid of doing justice, averse to truth, and contemptuous of God, in whose name he took his judicial oath.
It added that the First Law Omotosho Ignored: ACJA 2015, Section 303(3)(a)-(d) In Nigerian jurisprudence, the foundational statutory test for a no-case submission is crystal clear.
American Veterans of Igbo Descent maintained that the Witnesses had admitted under oath they had never met Kanu before, save for seeing him in court adding that no investigation was carried out into the allegations. It further stressed that no evidence linked Kanu to any offence neither anyone testified that Kanu incited them.
The group described the ongoing trial as a pathetic charade and not prosecution claiming that the judge trampled on section 36 of the 1999 Constitution, which guarantee a fair trial.It described the ruling as not law, but a perversion of justice, which betrayed the faith of the people in the Judiciary.
