Inter-society slams ‘extra-judicial’ detention of Nnamdi Kanu

The unlawful detention of the Radio Biafra director, Nnamdi Kanu is drawing attention as the human right group called INTERSOCIETY slams it as no longer being detention but extra-judicial detention. This comes after DSS disobeyed the orders of the magistrate court.

Rather, the group said,  he is now being detained extra-judicially according to administrative and operational whims and caprices of the Department of State Service,  DSS, since these administrative and operational whims and caprices lately deployed by the DSS are totally unknown to both the principles of the rule of law, constitutional democracy, the 1999 Constitution, local and international human rights and humanitarian norms.

As press statement signed by Mr. Emeka Umeagbalasi, Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, and  Obianuju Igboeli Joy,  Head, Civil Liberties and Rule of Law Programme, INTERSOCIETY in Onitsha, Anambra State, explained yesterday that if the court had granted Kanu bail on October 19, the DSS  ought to have completed its verification  process by Thursday,  October 22 and caused Citizen Kanu to be released in compliance with the order of the court.

“We wish to further inform authoritatively that upon meeting all draconian bail conditions leading to refusal by the DSS to release the detained Biafran self determination activist, the presiding Magistrate made an express  Production Order  on Friday,   October  23, 2015, for the DSS to produce Citizen Nnamdi Kanu before his court same date and explain why it failed to release the detainee upon meeting the imposed bail conditions.

The Production Order  was communicated to the DSS by the Court’s ambassador (bailiff) and the Magistrate’s  orderly  on October 23, 2015, but disappointedly, they were sent back by the DSS and the order was flagrantly and rapaciously disobeyed.