Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Other folks of Biafra, IPOB, on Monday, reacted to reviews that the Federal High Court docket, Abuja, turned into considering about intelligent the trial venue of his client.
Ejimakor truly handy that Kanu’s trial desires to be shifted to the Umuahia division of the Federal High Court docket.
In a chat with DAILY POST, Ejimakor explained that the IPOB leader final resided in Abia Impart, hence the trial desires to be shifted to Umuahia, the Impart capital.
He turned into reacting to comments by the Chief Obtain of the Federal High Court docket, Justice John Tsoho, on the likelihood of altering the venue of Kanu’s trial.
Justice Tosho had explained that the resolution turned into to prevent the interruption of assorted pending circumstances in court docket at some level of Kanu’s trial.
The IPOB leader goes via terrorism charges sooner than Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Federal High Court docket.
Throughout court docket cases keen Kanu, the court docket premises is on the total besieged by the agitator’s followers, occasioned by heavy security presence.
Most times, security operatives prevent assorted lawyers from gaining access into the court docket premises at some level of Kanu’s court docket cases.
This, Justice Tsoho, had frowned at, hence his consideration to hump Kanu’s trial to one more venue.
Reacting, Ejimakor truly handy that the court docket may perhaps soundless furthermore defend into consideration intelligent Kanu’s trial to any Impart in the South-East.
The Special Counsel pressured out that Abuja has no territorial connection with the crimes levelled towards the IPOB leader.
Consistent with Ejimakor: “If the Federal High Court docket overrules the objections to its jurisdiction and persists with the trial, then the venue desires to be shifted to the Umuahia division of the Federal High Court docket, as a result of that is the place Nnamdi Kanu final resided sooner than he turned into pursued to Kenya and renditioned.
“Abuja has no territorial connection with the offenses alleged. The alleged offences are fully in Southeast.
“So, any of the Southeast divisions will furthermore again as honest venue. If it requires making an expedient exception to the law, so be it”.
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