The Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, on Friday stated that the offence on which the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu is being tried in court is a difficult one and can only be resolved by competent court of law.
The AGF who stated in Abuja while responding to questions at the Sectoral Ministerial Briefing on the first anniversary of the President Bola Tinubu administration said the situation surrounding Kanu case is different from that of the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore.
“There is a remarkable difference between Kanu’s case and that of the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore,” who he had freed from further prosecution.
Fagbemi SAN said, “Sowore and Kanu are not the same, when it comes to the first one I didn’t have difficulty to say go, but I have difficulty with the second one”.
While pointing out that Kanu is being held in accordance with the Constitution, he observed that, “the matter is still in court, let’s wait for the court”.
It will be recalled that Sowore was arrested in 2019 and prosecuted for allegedly calling for the forceful take over of the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
However, the federal government through the office of the AGF in February this year filed a notice of discontinuance of the case.
On the continue abduction of journalists by security agencies, the Attorney General of the Federation said that arrest should be the appropriate word not abduction .
He said that no security agency is allow by the Constitution to abduct citizens but to arrest suspect of any crime and that those arrested must be within the law.
Whether a journalist was involved or not, “no one will be held outside the laws of the country.
“You don’t rationalize justice, you dispense it. If people deserve to be released, you release them.”