The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has urged the Nigerian Bar Association to include his case in its agenda of the 2025 NBA Annual General Conference holding in Enugu State.
He recently had his say via a letter addressed to the NBA president, dated August 18, 2025 and received at the national Secretariat on August 22, 2025, was made available to newsmen in Abuja.
In the letter titled “Re: Miscarriages of Justice in the Case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,” and personally signed by him, Kanu revealed that the NBA cannot keep ignoring how he is being treated by the Federal Government.
According to him, the NBA, known to be one of the guardians of the legal profession and the promoter of the rule of law, should use its platform to speak and fight on his behalf.
Insisting that his letter is not just words from a persecuted man, he declared that it should be treated as a bill of indictment against a compromised segment of the Nigerian judiciary.
“Sir, my name is Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), an organisation which is a lawful human right organisation registered in over 18 countries of the world with peacefully agitation for my right to self determination of Biafra Republic which is a fundamental human right of association guaranteed both in local and international laws and human rights.
May I inform you that this is not merely a letter of a persecuted man; it is a bill of indictment against a segment of the Nigerian judiciary that has, in my case, converted courts of law into arenas of impunity,” he said.
Kanu described the affliction he has faced from the courts as judicial lynching, stressing that the association needs to raise its voice and shed light on the injustice.
He concluded by saying something must be done about the obvious disregard for his sacred right of fair hearing.
“Audi alteram partem– the sacred maxim of fair hearing has been shattered beyond recognition.
Section 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFRN) 1999 (as amended), Sections 169 and 293 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015, and binding international instruments like the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Article 7) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 14) have all been mutilated in my case.
This letter sets out, in painstaking details, the catalogue of infractions that now stand as an unerasable blot on Nigeria’s legal conscience, supported by judicial authority.
It is further compounded by the fact that multiple authoritative bodies — including the Supreme Court itself, Court of Appeal of Nigeria (which discharged me), the Federal High Court (which declared my extraordinary rendition illegal), the Kenyan High Court, UN Special Rapporteur opinions, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) — have confirmed that I was abducted, tortured, and extraordinarily renditioned from Kenya in violation of domestic and international law,” it added.
