Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has put up a one million naira challenge to students of the Nigerian Law School.
The agitator offered one million to any law student who can provide an authority where a judge granted stay of release of a person acquitted by the court.
The challenge was disclosed by Kanu’s legal team led by his lead Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, Jude Ugwuanyi, Nnaemeka Ejiofor, and Mandela Umegborogu in Abuja on Tuesday.
Speaking on behalf of the lawyers, Ejiofor said “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu pledges to give any law student in any Nigerian University the sum of One Million (N1, 000, 000.00) Naira if such student finds any precedent on stay of execution in criminal proceedings where an acquitted person is by such order restrained from enjoying his freedom.
“It is an illegality that would hunt Nigeria for as long as life endures. But then, it was granted because Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is of Igbo descendants and must suffer, notwithstanding what the law says.”
The legal team also insisted that Kanu’s contentious detention was illegal and without any court backing.
He added: “It is noteworthy that Onyendu’s continual detention at the Department of State Security Service is illegal and not predicated on any court Order. Recall that Onyendu was remanded on the purport that Onyendu jumped bail.
“By the decision of the Court of Appeal, all the charges for which Onyendu is being tried were quashed for want of jurisdiction and in violation of the Extradition Acts of both Kenya and Nigeria.
“Justice Tsamani of the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division unlawfully granted an Order staying the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“This order was illegally granted and never in the history of any country’s jurisprudence had an acquitted person been denied his release from detention by way of stay of execution.”
