The US military veterans expressed concern about the judge's decision to deny Kanu's request for bail and to be moved from the Department of State Services (DSS) headquarters in Abuja, where he has been detained in solitary confinement since June 2021 as a result of his extraordinary rendition from Kenya, to the Correctional Centre.
“The Defendant exercised his right of appeal to the Court of Appeal where their lordships determined with the Defendant that, on account of his extraordinary rendition to Nigeria, the Court lacked the jurisdiction to try the Defendant for any offence alleged against him. The remaining counts were therefore struck out and the Defendant discharged accordingly.
All the manifestations of terrorism are written all over their activities. Yet, Vice President Kashim Shettima for example, keeps telling Middlebeltans to “live peaceably with their neighbours.” What other region in Nigeria is more peaceable, sometimes to the point of recklessness, than the Middlebelt?
Still on why it should free Nnamdi Kanu, WIC said it “believes that the Supreme Court will uphold the rule of law including the right of free speech and freedom of association enshrined in the Nigerian Constitution; and that it will ratify the numerous judgments of its subordinate courts, and of various International tribunals, which have all unanimously ordered the unconditional and immediate release of MNK.”