The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has said that the offence in 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 this in Abuja on Friday 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 had been freed from further prosecution.
Fagbemi 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”.
Pointing out that Kanu is being held in accordance with the Constitution, afahnobserved that, “the matter is still in court, let’s wait for the court”.
It is important to note that Sowore was arrested in 2019 and prosecuted for allegedly calling for the forceful take over of the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
But 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, Fagbemi said that arrest should be the appropriate word and not abduction .
He said that no security agency is allowed by the Constitution to abduct citizens but to arrest suspect of any crime and that those arrested must be within the law.
When asked whether a journalist was involved or not, Fagbemi said, “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.”
