Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer in the United States, Bruce Fein, has threatened to abstain from representing his client in any future court proceedings until the Nigerian government decides to organise an impartial trial for the imprisoned leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The Washington-based human rights activist expressed his opinion in a tweet on Friday after Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja once again denied Kanu’s legal team’s request for release. He claimed that Nyako’s handling of the case up to that point has been a total sham.
“MNK’s illegal solitary imprisonment for more than one year with no trial and without a crumb of incriminating evidence adduced shows judicial proceedings are complete fraud,” Fein wrote on the micro-blogging platform.
“Time to boycott Judge Nyako until open trial is forthcoming to expose the government’s crimes against MNK,” the lawyer added.
Kanu had been detained by the Directorate of State Service (DSS) since June 2021, when he had been apprehended in Kenya by Nigerian security agents and extradited to that country where a number of legitimate felony accusations had been brought against him.
His legal team has been battling tooth and nail to get him out of detention to no avail as the court has continued to deny him bail on several occasions.
