The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has urged the Nigerian Bar Association to include his matter in its agenda of the 2025 NBA Annual General Conference holding in Enugu State.
In a letter addressed to the NBA president, dated August 18, 2025, received at the national Secretariat on August 22, 2025, and made available to newsmen on Friday in Abuja, prayed the NBA not to turn its face against him.
Kanu described the NBA as the guardians of the legal profession and the promoter of the rule of law stating that far more than just a letter, what he sent 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 urged the Nigerian Bar Association to incorporate the proceedings as one of its discussions in the ongoing NBA conference going on in Enugu State.
He wrote; “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”.
According to him, what the court has done to him is nothing less than judicial lynching as against constitutional order .
The letter continued “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. “
Listing some of the alleged infractions committed against him in the letter and three judges involved, Kanu urged the NBA to carry out thorough investigation of his claims and publish a report condemning use of civil procedures to subvert criminal law, and the resurrection of repealed statutes.
He prayed; “Affirm that no Nigerian should ever again be detained by abduction or tried under a repealed law.
“Hold errant judges accountable, restoring public confidence in the Bar and Bench.”
He added; “This case is not only about me.
“It is about whether Nigeria’s judiciary is bound by law or by impunity.
“The constitution, statutes, and international treaties have all been shredded.
“The Bar cannot be silent.
“I hereby call on Nigerian Bar Association to discuss these judicial misconducts as one of your topic of discussions in the ongoing 2025 NBA annual conference going on in Enugu State.
“Qui tacet consentire videtur — he who Is silent is taken to agree.
“Silence now would make the NBA complicit in the erosion of Nigeria’s legal foundations. Thank you and God bless the NBA.”
