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IPOB: AGF, Kafarati, may face criminal prosecution, says US lawyer

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Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami and the Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Abdul Kafarati, may face prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for contriving and granting an order against the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), legitimizing the brutal clamp down on the group by security forces in Nigeria.

United States’ constitutional lawyer and scholar, Mr. Bruce Fein, who stated this at the weekend, said both men were not immuned to prosecution because the proscripion of IPOB and branding it a terrorist organisation was not only illegal, but had genocidal consequences on the people of the South- East of Nigeria.

Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, Okoi Obono- Obla, in a telephone chat with Sunday Telegraph in Abuja, said that, “The ranting by the so-called constitutional lawyer and scholar does not even deserve an answer. It is what we call in law non sequitor! The man has shown his blissful ignorance of Nigerian Law.

“The proscription order was premised on Section 2 (1) subsection (a) (b) and (c) of the Terrorism (Prevention) Act 2011 (as amended)! So who is this nondescript USA lawyer who does not know a thing about Nigerian Law talking about the illegality of an order granted by a Nigerian Court based on Nigerian Law”.

New Telegraph, October 1, 2017

 

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