00:00In this write-up, a legal practitioner, Njoku Jude Njoku pinpoints.
00:05Some fundamentals in the judgment passed against Mazi Namdekanu, by just...
00:10...James Omotosho, which convicted and sentenced the Biafra Republic agitation leader.
00:15...to life imprisonment, and in this press release the legal practitioner issued in late...
00:20...2025 entitled, the 24th of November 2025.
00:25The day evidence ceased to matter in Nigerian courts, judicial silence selected...
00:30...and media complicity, described Justice Omotosho as unprofessional.
00:35...stating that, the most dangerous aspect of the judgment delivered by justice...
00:40...James K Omotosho, is not merely that it reached a foreordained conclusion, but that...
00:45...it did so by deliberately suppressing evidence he already admitted on record in his own...
00:50...court, thereby converting adjudication into a procedural facade, this was not...
00:55...an error of law or an oversight of fact. It was a calculated refusal to engage...
01:00...with material evidence whose evaluation would have fatally undermined the prosecution's...
01:05...narrative, empasing that, this case is no longer about one man.
01:10It is about whether courts may openly disregard admitted evidence and still be treated as...
01:15...legitimate, and whether the media will continue to mask such conduct through silence.
01:20...a judiciary that can ignore evidence without explanation has ceased to function as a court...
01:25...of law, a media that refuses to question that silence has abdicated its public...
01:30...of duty, together, they place the rule of law itself in existential peril.
01:35...Continuing, in details, Injoku said, once evidence is admitted...
01:40...it binds the judge absolutely. The conduct, protest, silence...
01:45...or alleged boycott of the defendant, Mazinamdikano, is legally arrested...
01:50...relevant to that obligation. Judgment writing is not a negotiation with the accused.
01:55It is a solitary judicial duty anchored exclusively to the evidentiary record.
02:00A judge may reject defense evidence, but he must first confront it.
02:05...evaluate it, and explain why it is rejected.
02:08Silence is not neutral.
02:10...internality, silence is suppression.
02:13Had Justice Omotosha evaluated the admitted...
02:15video exhibit of Theophilus, T.Y., Danjuma, he would have been confronted.
02:20with the inescapable reality that public calls for communities to arm themselves in cell
02:25and self-defense against murderous violence were not unique to Nnamdi Karno, nor criminalize
02:30when made by powerful establishment figures.
02:33Proper evaluation would have
02:35compelled the court to accept that Karno's calls for guns and bullets in Los Angeles,
02:39U.S.
02:40A, or during broadcasts were framed as community self-defense against the ravages of
02:45armed Fulani killer herders, not incitement to lawless violence.
02:50Radjustice Omotosha evaluated the admitted video evidence of Governor Hope Uzebinba.
02:55He would have known, because Uzebinba stated it publicly, that neither Nnamdi Karno
03:00nor the IPOB had any hand in the killing of Ahmed Gulag.
03:05That single evaluation would have punctured one of the most politically weaponized allegations.
03:10surrounding this case.
03:11Had Justice Omotosha listened to his fellow Yoruba
03:15Kinsman and Nigeria's Intelligence Chief, Adeona Oluwato Senajai.
03:20whose statements were also admitted in evidence.
03:22He would have been forced to acknowledge that the formation
03:25of armed vigilante groups for community defense was openly endorsed at the highest level.
03:30of Nigeria's security establishment.
03:33That acknowledgment would have led an ex-
03:35of the most vulnerable to the conclusion that Karno was right to form to defend Igbol and when the state failed.
03:40to do so.
03:41Had Justice Omotosha evaluated the evidence surrounding Lagos
03:45state judicial panel of inquiry report on ENCE's violence, he would have seen the-
03:50documentary trail showing that Nnamdi Karno repeatedly wrote to and consulted southeast governor
03:55URGING THEM TO ESTABLISH A REGIONAL SECURITY OUTFIT SIMILAR TO EMOTECON
04:00their refusal, not Karno's, ambition, precipitated the-
04:05the formation of ESN.
04:07proper judicial evaluation would have made clear that-
04:10ESN was conceptually and functionally analogous to EMOTECON, differing only in-
04:15political acceptance, not in-
04:17purpose.
04:18Had Justice Omotosha reviewed-
04:20and evaluated the admitted report on ENCE's violence, he would have been confronted with
04:25authoritative findings that squarely blamed killings and violence on the army and police.
04:30not on Nnamdi Karno.
04:32that report decisively dismantles the lazy and dis-
04:35dishonest attribution of nationwide violence to IPOB broadcasts and would have stripped-
04:40the prosecution's claims of moral and evidentiary legitimacy.
04:44Had Justice-
04:45this Omotosha paid even minimal attention to chronology-
04:48he would have known that attributing-
04:50post-June 2021 insecurity in the south-eastern Nnamdi Karno is factual-
04:55and logically impossible.
04:57From June 2021 onward, Karno-
05:00was held in underground DSS detention, incommunicado, without access to-
05:05telephones, visitors, council, or even his wife.
05:09A man-
05:10were locked in solitary confinement.
05:12Denied all external communication.
05:14Cannot-
05:15simultaneously be directing events outside detention walls.
05:19Time itself-
05:20disproves the allegation.
05:21The failure to reconcile alleged acts with undisputed-
05:25detention timelines is not a minor evidentiary lapse.
05:28It is a collapse of basic-
05:30judicial reasoning.
05:31Courts that ignore timelines abandon causation, and-
05:35once causation is abandoned, conviction becomes a matter of narrative convenience rather than-
05:40proof.
05:41These were not speculative arguments.
05:43They were admitted exhibit-
05:45their collective evaluation would have collapsed the architecture of the conviction.
05:50That-
05:50that is precisely why they were ignored.
05:52The refusal to evaluate this evidence was not-
05:55not accidental.
05:56It was not procedural.
05:57It was outcome-driven.
05:58Justice-
06:00Motosho ignored them because he was operating under an overriding imperative to convict by-
06:05all means, regardless of the evidentiary record.
06:08This is the gravest day-
06:10danger such a judgment poses.
06:12It signals to the judiciary that evidence may be admitted-
06:15buried, and erased at the judgment stage without consequence.
06:19Even more-
06:20more disturbing is the silence of major international media organizations.
06:24None of-
06:25which asked the most basic question any law student would pose.
06:29Why did the court-
06:30ignore defense evidence it had itself admitted?
06:33By reproducing the conclusion-
06:35of the judgment without interrogating its evidentiary omissions.
06:39These media houses-
06:40became unwitting accomplices in the laundering of judicial misconduct.
06:44This case-
06:45is no longer about one man.
06:47It is about whether courts may openly disregard-
06:50and admitted evidence and still be treated as legitimate.
06:53And whether the media will continue to-
06:55mask such conduct through silence.
06:57A judiciary that can ignore evidence without-
07:00that explanation has ceased to function as a court of law.
07:03A media that refuses-
07:05is to question that silence has abdicated its public duty.
07:09Together-
07:10they place the rule of law itself in existential peril.
07:14Who isn't Joku-
07:15in Joku-
07:16Esquire.
07:17According to Google Gemini,
07:19in Joku-
07:20Esquire is a United Kingdom based human rights lawyer and a key legal-
07:25advisor to the leader of the indigenous people of Biafra, I-P-O-B-
07:30Lambdekano.
07:31His recent professional activities include-
07:34legal-
07:35representation.
07:36He serves as a legal consultant for Kanu and is a prominent member of-
07:40the Masi Namdekano Global Defense Consortium.
07:43Critique of extradition
07:45He has accused the Nigerian government of violating local and international laws.
07:50specifically the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, regarding Kanu-
07:55forceful extradition, from Kenya in 2021.
08:00Judicial-
08:00Social Advocacy
08:01He has frequently criticized the Nigerian judiciary.
08:04Describ-
08:05describing certain rulings as procedural theatre, and suggesting that Nigerian judges-
08:10require refresher courses on-
08:12Judicial English, due to what he terms a-
08:15crisis in the comprehension of laws.
08:17Recent filings
08:18As of late January 20-
08:202026, he has been involved in rejecting court rulings that struck out applications-
08:25for Kanu's transfer to facilities closer to Abuja, vowing to pursue these ma-
08:30matters on appeal.
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