NNAMDI KANU, SUNDAY IGBOHO AND NIGERIAN JUDICIARY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 412. 4th July, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

NNAMDI KANU, SUNDAY IGBOHO AND NIGERIAN JUDICIARY!

Though the re-arrest of “Biafra State” protagonist, Nnamdi Kanu, who was facing an 11-count charge of treason, treasonable felony, terrorism and illegal possession of firearms etc, when he jumped bail in 2017, was “fait accompli”, the feat was nothing to jubilate about, although, Lai Mohammed, Information Minister wants everyone to believe that the exercise was “one of the most classic operations of its type in the world”!

In a past summation on Kanu, We classified the 54-year-old as a misguided Igbo Youth who needed further research on the remote and real causes of the 30-month Biafra Civil War from July 1967- January 1970, which began when he was barely TWO MONTHS OLD and to approach the crusade from a more matured perspective!

Although Kanu, leader of the proscribed Independent People Of Biafra (IPOB), was re-arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday 29th June, 2021, he was ordered to be remanded in DSS custody until 26th-27th July, 2021, when the case against him would re-commence, his misplaced doctrine for secession, separation, restructuring, disintegration etc, is spreading like an uncontrollable wild fire which disgruntled youths are poised to support because an unprecedented insecurity beyond the scope of MR. BUHARI & CO. has engulfed the entire nation through, insurgency terrorism, banditry, massive kidnapping of school children, ravaging armed Fulani killer herdsmen, criminal destruction of strategic government infrastructures!

QUESTION: Has anyone ever thought that the erstwhile fugitive Nnamdi Kanu, deliberately baited DSS and its foreign collaborators to officially bring him back to avoid external snipers? 

While Lai was celebrating Kanu’s re-arrest on TWITTER? – No! Instagram, Facebook and other social media platforms, SUNDAY IGBOHO, the cat  with nine lives and his associates hi-jacked Lagos Roads to demand for a YORUBA NATION and engaged the POLICE in a hide and seek game for the better part of Saturday, 3rd July, 2021! The DSS say that Igboho is on their “Wanted List!” 

QUESTION: Can the demand for SELF-DETERMINATION be actualized through violence or peaceful negotiations? 

EYINNAYA ABARIBE, (Senate Minority Leader and an Igbo RABBI – KANU’S SURETIES before he jumped bail may now heave a sigh of relief!

THIS JUDICIARY DUMB ASS MUST SPEAK OUT NOW!

Nigerian Judiciary had always played the dumb Ass of the three-tier government structure since independence through deliberate intimidation and coercion by Executive/Legislature, which execute dominant roles of executing public order, peace and security on day-to-day basis until the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), came to its rescue through a nation-wide strike which began on Tuesday 6th April, 2021 and suspended 14th June, 2021!

The over flogged need for Judicial Financial Autonomy that should place the legal body’s salaries, emoluments, all contractual transactions on “a first line charge”, was the plank on which JUSUN based their argument for the 64-day-old strike action described as the longest in the annals of trade disputes of the Nigerian Judiciary!

But the Executive had from independence usurped that constitutional right since the President appoints the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), while Governors appoint Chief Judges of the 36 States, (through explicit approval of the Legislature), pay their salaries and take care of all welfare needs etc, like the proverbial adage which says: “He who pays the piper, calls the tune”.

JUDICIAL POWERS OF THE FEDERATION– according to Section 6 –(1) (2 (3 (4) (a (b), and sub-section 5(a) to (k); Sub-section (6) ()a(d) and Chapter VII Sections 230 – 296, of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, shall be vested  in the Judiciary, which is regarded as the “bastion of democracy”.

The Nigerian Judiciary had never had it so bad in relegation, not even when its Judges were shocked with a surprise midnight Department of State Services (DSS) “Sting Operation” targeted against “corrupt judges” who were fingered by the Executive, which must suppress the cause of justice to achieve fake results by playing the triple role of the accuser, prosecutor and judge!  

A Human Rights Activist opined that there could be several other ways of ensuring Executive compliance to constitutional provisions on judicial autonomy rather than cripple the entire organ of government but We believe that all options were explored to avoid the impasse – including a 21-day ultimatum – which government ignored! 

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), has confirmed that the Abuja Federal High Court verdict of January 2014 which held that constitutional provision of financial autonomy of the judiciary subsisted and must be complied with by the Executive Arm. 

If the Nigerian Judiciary was favored to discharge its constitutional duties under normal conditions of equality of strength, capacity and separation of powers among the three tiers of government, it would not have been rendered almost financially incapacitated by consecutive Executive Arms until President Muhammadu Buhari officially signed Executive Order 10 , having at a previous occasion accused it of frustrating his efforts in fighting CORRUPTION! 

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10!

The Federal Government Agency also reported that on 23rd May, 2020, that President Buhari signed into law the Executive Order 10, to grant financial autonomy to the Legislature and Judiciary across the 36 States of Nigeria and also mandated the Accountant General of the Federation TO DEDUCT FROM SOURCE amount due to State Legislatures and Judiciaries from the monthly allocation to each State for States that refuse to grant such autonomy. 

The Attorney General of the Federation, also said that Executive Order 10 of 2020 made it mandatory that all States of the Federation should include the allocations of both the Legislature and the Judiciary in the first line charge of their budgets (i.e. directly from the Federation Account), and also constituted a “Presidential Implementation Committee to ensure compliance with Section 121(3), of the 1999, Constitution (as amended)!”

NAN also reported that the Governors Forum promised to begin implementation of the Financial Autonomy May 2021 ending, following a meeting with all state holders at the State House, Abuja. 

JUDICIARY AS THE GUARDIAN PROTECTOR OF NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION MUST OCCUPY ITS RIGHTFUL POSITION TO GIVE HOPE TO THE COMMON MAN AND THE OPPRESSED IN THE LAND “ACCORDING TO THE LAW”!

Now that JUSUN has partially bailed out its senior partner from the 60-year bondage by the duo taskmasters of the Executive/Legislature, the Judiciary should give more attention to dispensing justice to the people, build the structure  of civil liberty through judicious interpretation and application of laws, intensify role in law-making, equity legislation, protection of fundamental human rights, jealously guarding the Constitution and securing all lawful power to get its decisions and judgments enforced in order to lawfully occupy its significant role as the LAST HOPE OF THE COMMON MAN! 

During the elongated JUSUN strike, the following derelictions by major stakeholders were very glaring:

Mr. President was aloof, nonchalant, folded his arms and said, “I don do my own o … I don sign Executive Order 10, shikeena!”

The Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC), and the Chief Justice of Nigeria were very passive like “household enemies”, who usually benefitted from calamities! 

The Minister of Labor intermittently paid “lip service” and watched the situation deteriorate for TWO MONTHS while as usual, poor citizens, litigants, incarcerated prisoners and those awaiting trial, bore the brunt in the 64 days which resulted in  various economic loses through maladministration of the BUHARI ADMINISTRATION!

THE JUDICIARY SHOULD ALWAYS AVOID INJUSTICE IN ANY FORM AND CONSTANTLY REMEMBER THAT JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED!

ROLE OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION!

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), members who were temporarily SHUT OUT OF LIVELIHOOD FROM THE COURTS, supported the strike from start to finish! They were with JUSUN on street protests (rain or shine), across all States of the Federation to press home their demands in the most decent and lawful manner AND to urge governments at both Federal and States to do the needful without further delay!  

With the ultimate success of JUSUN Strike, Lawyers should occupy the forefront of the struggle for justice to assert the independence of the Judiciary and jealously guard its structural position as the corner stone which the builder rejected BUT has now become the HEAD OF THE CORNER!

SHOULD THE COURTS GO ON RECESS HAVING LOST  MUCH GROUNDS TO JUSUN STRIKE?

In spite of the hues and cries over lost period of 64 days of JUSUN Strike, the Nigerian Courts will proceed on its annual recess from the second week of July 2021, but will nevertheless, provide auxiliary services and continue to operate as normal during those periods, in which hearings could be organized if the circumstances of the case so demand.

THE JUDICIARY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE THREE ARMS AND SHOULD OCCUPY ITS RIGHTFUL POSITION HENCEFORTH!

Nigerians can do without thieving politicians in both the executive and the legislative BUT DEFINITELY NOT WITHOUT THE JUDICIARY!

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but SIN is a reproach to all people.” (Proverbs. 14:34).

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