Nnamdi Kanu: Is the Law Stupid? By Olaleye Olawale

I’m not a fan of Nnamdi Kanu, the self-styled leader of IPOB, the group advancing the resuscitation of Biafra, several years after the Civil War.

For many obvious reasons, I’m not sure we’d ever have to share space either. He is very uncultured and largely uncouth with a terrible temper to boot.

Right or wrong, I’m also one of those who believe that his unwieldy leadership style paved the way for the current madness and insecurity in the southeast of Nigeria.

But that’s all about it for me. His continued detention and case adjournment are beginning to look like the law and the constitution are truly not functioning here in Nigeria.

Let the court decide whatever it wants to do with him. If you’ve found him guilty, apply the appropriate punishment and close this chapter for good.

If you do not find him guilty of the charges preferred against him, leave the man alone and let him go home. The wheel of Nigeria’s peculiar justice is annoyingly too slow and disheartening.

Sometimes, you wonder the difference between a democracy and a military regime when things like these are entertained in the name of whatever. He’s been incarcerated for too long, and it no longer catches the fancy of many people.

Even if the years he’s been kept behind bars are enough for the time to be handed him for the crime committed, do the mathematics and let him go.

Something just has to give. You can’t continue to keep him without concluding his matter. This is not fair. This is not justice. This is not constitutionalism. This is not legal. Indeed, it shares nothing with democracy. Absolutely none.

Evidently, the government has run out of excuses for keeping him, and the court just continues to adjourn curiously and endlessly. This is sad and disturbing.

It is about time the matter was concluded and put to rest. It’s been dragging needlessly for too long and no longer makes sense to an average right-thinking individual.