Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, spouse to Nnamdi Kanu, the convicted chief of the proscribed Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, has reacted to the life sentence judgment slammed on her husband on Thursday by the federal excessive court docket.
Kanu’s spouse maintained {that a} decide can not ask a defendant to open a protection on terrorism associated expenses with out studying out the written regulation beneath which the court docket is making an attempt the individual.
Uchechi alleged that the decide learn a script handed over to him in sentencing Kanu to life imprisonment.
She additionally claimed that the decide may barely learn out a number of the phrases in his personal very written judgment.
DAILY POST reported that the Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja on Thursday sentenced NKanu to life imprisonment.
Justice James Omotosho handed down the judgment after delivering a landmark ruling within the trial of the IPOB chief.
DAILY POST reported that Omotosho had earlier convicted Kanu on all seven counts of terrorism charges introduced in opposition to him by the Division of State Companies.
In his judgment, the decide held that the prosecution offered enough and credible proof to show its case.
He famous that Kanu did not enter a defence, as an alternative selecting to relaxation his case on the prosecution’s proof—a big gamble the court docket mentioned left it with no possibility however to convict.
Nonetheless, Kanu’s spouse mentioned: “In Nigeria, a decide can not ask a defendant to open a protection on terrorism associated expenses with out studying out the written regulation beneath which the court docket is making an attempt that individual. Okay, so the structure of the Federal Republic of of Nigeria, 1999 as amended, part 36, I imply, I’m positive that could be very acquainted to everybody now.
“It supplies that an individual shall not be convicted of a felony offense except the the offense is outlined and the penalty prescribed as in a written regulation. So what Omotosho has finished right this moment is a script, a written script for him to learn out. Everybody may hear him. Everybody may see that he was studying a script handed over to him and that he may barely learn out a number of the phrases in his personal very written judgment. How attention-grabbing. How attention-grabbing.
“I’ve needed to rapidly tweet and properly submit the the travesty of justice right this moment relating to how Omotosho ignored the Structure’s requirement that none may be convicted beneath an unwritten or unknown offense.
“He compelled Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to take a plea beneath a repealed regulation, which Mazi Nnamdi Kanu refused. So present me the place it’s written earlier than I can enter right into a protection. And that by no means occurred.
“Omotosho refused, blatantly, flagrantly, to problem written rulings on severe purposes. So you possibly can hear him studying. You would hear him counting 1000s of traces of hours of account.
“However then he refused to problem a written a written ruling, which he should have finished first, however by no means did. He informed Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to place all objections in a remaining tackle, then block the ultimate tackle. So for those who had been Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, you’ll be as outraged as he was this afternoon.
“You can not ask me to place my remaining tackle, put it down, write it down, and then you definately block it. So Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has proper. It’s his proper to place a remaining tackle down, to write down it down. However a Omotosho blocked that and determined to learn out these nonsense he known as counts.”
