Clark urges FG: Obey court order, release Kanu

Elder statesman and leader of the Niger Delta Development Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, on Monday described as “imperious and needless” the response of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), few hours after the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, was freed by the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal.

He, therefore, called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to obey court order and release Kanu.

Clark said even though certain activities of Kanu and IPOB followers “have been a nuisance and very disturbing”, the Federal Government went too far in going all the way to Kenya to abduct him on the ground that he jumped bail.

According to him, he decided to speak following reports on the stance of the AGF and the subsequent concurrence by the National Security Council at its meeting last Friday that the judgement of the Court of Appeal only discharged Kanu but did not acquit him of the charges for which he was facing trial.

The nonagenarian stated these in a statement he signed obtained by journalists in Abuja, titled, ‘Obey court order on Kanu, Chief Clark tells President Buhari.’

The statement partly read, “Though History, as a subject, has not been taught in our schools for many years, the evidence of the civil war and the marginalisation of the South-East, the ‘Igbos’ is there for even a ten-year-old child to comprehend; when he or she is discriminated against in even admission to the Federal Unity Schools, where even if he or she scores the highest mark percentage, the child knows he or she may not be admitted. Punch