Does Kanu’s lawyer have proof of the Army’s guilt?

by Alexander O. Onukwue

The legal counsel for the leader of the IPOB Nnamdi Kanu has asked the chief of Army staff to produce the controversial leader of the now proscribed group.

Mr Ejiofor says he has filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja on the claim that Kanu has not been seen by anyone since the 14th of September when the soldiers of Operation Python Dance II supposedly invaded Kanu’s residence.

The lawyer repeats the yet to be verified claim that the attack by the soldiers claimed the lives of 28 IPOB members. It is based on this supposition that it has been rumored that Kanu may have been killed or taken away by the soldiers. The Army has denied having any knowledge of Kanu’s whereabouts, going with the suggestion that Mr Kanu has fled the country. Being an intelligence organisation which does not always show all of its hands, the Army may choose to not fully reveal to the public all it knows about a given circumstance. This could be the substance behind the claims made by Kanu’s lawyers that the Army may have something to hide.

However, the burden of proof remains on Mr Ejiofor and company to produce reasonable doubt as far as the Army’s claim of not knowing Kanu’s whereabouts is concerned. It would have been an evidence to show the bodies of the IPOB persons said to have been killed by the Army only that the lawyer says the Army took the bodies away.

The attention surrounding IPOB has become a bit subdued since the Federal Government obtained a proscription order against the group. Key members of the group have not been heard much in the public space since that time but Kanu’s lawyer has continued to make a case for the Government’s culpability in Kanu’s present disappearance.

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