{"id":100314,"date":"2022-10-15T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=100314"},"modified":"2022-10-15T07:49:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:49:17","slug":"nnamdi-kanu-has-a-case-to-answer-security-council-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/nnamdi-kanu-has-a-case-to-answer-security-council-insists\/","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu Has A Case To Answer, Security Council Insists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1746732494936874011\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Security Council has thrown its weight on the position of the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, that the Appeal Court judgement on the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was not an acquittal.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also said that the issue of political solution on the IPOB leader\u2019s judgement was not discussed at the meeting and that any political solution to the matter would be within the context of law.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said Kanu still has a case to answer.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja said Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had only been discharged by the Appeal Court and that the government will explore necessary actions available to it to press on with the matter.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the security meeting, the Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, joined by his Interior counterpart, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, said the council did not discuss the issue of a possible political solution which Malami had broached in November 2021.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said government will consider appropriate actions on the matter and notify the public.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the council only discussed the Appeal Court judgement but noted that solutions to these kind of matters can be considered as long as they are not subjudice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minister of police affairs said, \u201cThe issue of Kanu has also been raised and council was briefed on the state of things on the matter. And it was observed that Kanu was discharged but he is not acquitted so, government is considering the appropriate action to be taken on the matter and Nigerians will be notified of the position that will be finally taken on the matter in due course\u201d.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recall that Malami had in a television interview said that the federal government may consider all kinds of solutions, including political ones, to resolve the crisis surrounding separatist agitations in the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was quoted as saying while fielding questions on Kanu and Yoruba separatist agitator, Sunday Igboho that, \u201cAs far as the security situation is concerned and as far as governance and this administration is concerned, you cannot rule out all possibilities. But then, there has to be an approach for government to consider.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The council also directed the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) in conjuction with the Office of the Secretary to Government of the Federation (OSGF) to set up a high-powered investigation committee into the crude oil theft in the Niger Delta with a view to unraveling those behind it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Answering question on the allegation by the IPOB that the military always force any arrested hard criminal in Southeast to always claim membership of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, a military wing of the separatist group, in order to implicate it, the CDS said there was no truth in the allegation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that IPOB thrives in propaganda, advising that the public should not take such propaganda seriously<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_-5305500789488757446ymail_android_signature\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Security Council has thrown its weight on the position of the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, that the Appeal Court judgement&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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