‘Prosecution from the bench’ – Defence team faults judge in Nnamdi Kanu’s trial

The Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Global Legal Consortium has described the trial of the jailed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, leader as prosecution from the bench.
The consortium, a group of lawyers fighting for Kanu’s freedom, made the assertion in a statement released on Thursday by a lawyer, Onyedikachi Ifedi.
Ifedi said the trial judge, Justice James Omotosho, defied mandatory supreme court commands in arriving at the conviction of the agitator.
“When a trial judge actively selects which statutory commands to obey and which to ignore in order to preserve a politically charged prosecution, that is not an innocent oversight — that is prosecution from the bench,” the lawyer stated.
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