This video is posted for the sake of telling our story, our history, and the sacrifices made. It bears Dick Tiger, former world light heavyweight boxing champion, speaking in 1968. What he said is a lesson on how far a threatened people will go in defense of their freedom.
Everyone deserves more than one chance to appeal their case. Mazi Nnamdi Kanuโs case is no exception.
Remember, the only real constant_ is Change. And it goes wherever the wind blows.
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Itโs a matter of public record that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has fulfilled all legal requirements of his appeal by filing his brief of argument, motion for accelerated hearing, and a bail application before the Court of Appeal.
Yet, the government has so far failed to file its reply brief, and the court is yet to schedule a date to hear either the substantive appeal or the bail application.ย
This systematic delay is tantamount to injustice. Personal liberty is a fundamental right. When the main appeal is intentionally stalled by the prosecution's inaction, the bail application must be treated as high-priority.
To be sure, keeping Mazi Nnamdi Kanu incarcerated without hearing his bail application amounts to a violation of his right to be heard within a reasonable time.
The Court of Appeal is therefore strongly urged to act now! Hearing Mazi Nnamdi Kanuโs bail application has now become more urgent than ever.
Nobody deserves jail for demanding Biafra in strong words
By ALOY EJIMAKOR
As Nigeria careens into another general election, let it be made clear that a true democracy must first address the underlying grievances driving the persistent call for self determination, rather than using draconian law enforcement and the judicial machinery to silence it.
Demanding a separate State is, unarguably, a fundamental human right recognized under the laws of nations. Itโs not a crime. Thus, merely advocating for Biafra - regardless of how strong, provocative or harsh the rhetoric may be - does not equate to terrorism or treason.
To be sure, imprisoning MAZI NNAMDI KANU and other alleged IPOB members for their speech or stance sets a dangerous precedent against free political expression. Free speech inherently includes the right to express controversial, unpopular and challenging political stances.
Locking up people for demanding self-determination only deepens divisions, fuels resentment, and signals that dissent or agitation is criminalized. True nation-building requires dialogue and political engagement, not the criminalization of political aspiration, however inconvenient.
Nations have been born from demands far louder and stronger than that of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Scotland held a referendum. Catalonia voted. Many African and European states exist because people refused to remain under arrangements they rejected. Strong language in that struggle is protected expression, not an offence.
What is happening today is not a deserved prosecution or imprisonment. It is, instead, an unjust punishment of a political demand, and of those who refuse to be silent about Igbo exclusion, religious terror, and a broken federal arrangement. Words and radio broadcasts are being treated as more dangerous than actual killings (especially in the North) that go unpunished.
A state that jails people for asking to leave while claiming to be democratic is not enforcing the law. It is enforcing fear and suppressing dissent by means of punishment. Dialogue and a political settlement, not prison, are the only honest answers to a demand that has become more persistent.
Thus, for the sake of Nigeriaโs peace and tranquility, the best way forward at this critical time is to free all prisoners of conscience before the 2027 general elections.
Free Mazi Nnamdi Kanu: Nigeria Cannot Keep One Law For The Igbo And Another For Everyone Else
Nigeria Is Not Short Of Armed Men. It Is Short Of Equal Justice.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Sits In a Nigerian Prison Under a Life Sentence Because The Nigerian State Decided That An Igbo Man Who Demanded Self-Determination, And Who Raised a Regional Security Network After Farms And Communities In The South-East Had Become Targets Of Kidnapping, Violence And a Killing Ground, Was a Terrorist.
That Conviction, Delivered On 20 November 2025, Is Now Being Challenged On Appeal. The Case Must Be Heard. The Government That Fought To Keep Him In Chains When An Earlier Court Discharged Him Cannot Now Remain Silent When He Is Asking For His Appeal To Be Heard. That Is Not The Posture Of a Confident Prosecution. It Raises Serious Questions About a State That Appears Determined To Keep a Political Prisoner Locked Away Rather Than Allow The Law To Be Tested Fully And Transparently.
Call His Imprisonment What It Is: Unjust, Illegal In Its Origins, And Unconstitutional In Its Method. He Did Not Simply โJump Bailโ In The Cartoon Version The Federal Government Has Sold For Years.
In April 2017, He Was Granted Bail. In September 2017, During Operation Python Dance II, Soldiers Moved On Afaraukwu, Umuahia. His Family Compound Was Raided, And The Military Operation Resulted In Deaths. Hundreds Of People Were Shot And Killed. His Fatherโs Palace Was Desecrated, Household Property Was Carted Away, And The Items They Could Not Carry Were Destroyed.
IPOB And Mazi Nnamdi Kanuโs Family Have Always Maintained Something Simpler And More Terrible: The Military Came For Him In His Home, And He Fled Because Remaining There Could Have Cost Him His Life.
A Man Running From An Armed Assault On His Family Home Is Not a Fugitive From Justice And Should Not Casually Be Reduced To a โBail-Jumperโ Without Confronting The Circumstances That Caused Him To Leave.
He Is a Survivor Of State Violence. The Government That Nearly Got Him Killed Then Spent Years Branding Him a Fugitive From Justice And Branding Him a Bail-Jumper. That Is Not Justice. That Is Narrative Management.
When They Finally Got Him Again, They Did Not Use a Conventional Extradition Process. In June 2021, He Was Abducted In Kenya, Held Incommunicado, Flown Into Nigeria Without Due Process And Brought Back To Nigeria Under Circumstances That Courts Subsequently Condemned. That Is The Extraordinary-Rendition Controversy At The Heart Of This Case. The Court Of Appeal In 2022 Discharged Him, Finding Serious Violations Arising From The Manner In Which He Was Brought Back To Nigeria. A United Nations Working Group On Arbitrary Detention Also Found His Detention Arbitrary, Said The Transfer Violated International Law And Called For Appropriate Remedies. In 2025, a
Kenyan Court Also Ruled Against The Circumstances Surrounding His Removal From Kenya And Declared His Abduction And Forcible Removal From Kenya Unconstitutional And Illegal.
Nigeriaโs Supreme Court Later Described The Manner Of His Return And Rendition As โUnfair And Oppressiveโ While Nevertheless Allowing The Criminal Proceedings To Continue. A State That Concedes It Kidnapped a Man Across a Border And Then Convicts Him On The Fruit Of That Kidnapping Is Not Administering Justice. It Is Laundering An Abduction Through a Courtroom.
Think About That.
A State Can Unlawfully Or Oppressively Bring a Man Across An International Border, Then Put Him On Trial After That Process, And Still Insist That The Resulting Prosecution Represents Ordinary Justice. A State That Concedes The Process Was Unfair Should Not Be Surprised When Citizens Question The Legitimacy Of Everything That Followed. Now The Conviction Itself Is Being Challenged On Serious Legal Grounds, Including Arguments Concerning The Terrorism Legislation Under Which He Was Prosecuted And The Applicability Of Repealed Provisions.