Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said it is totally against what it refers to as the unconstitutional, provocative, primitive, illegal and insanely non-methodical treatment of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

The group said the handling of the matter filed prior to the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako has been anything however fair and simply.

According to the rights group, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has demonstrated an inappropriate level of lawlessness and non-adherence to due procedure and has actually revealed disrespect and disregard to the concept of guideline of law and has actually run under the concept of guideline of brute force, adding that the process has actually likewise gone through systematic odium and characterised by discrimination.

The group lamented that the federal government of President Muhammadu Buhari has treated Kanu as a captive or prisoner of conscience or something even worst than that.

“They are treating him as an occupant in a labour camp of pre-1945 Second World War era or as one of the 6 million Jews murdered in the gas chambers by the then repressive pre-WW2 GERMAN GOVERNMENT,” the group said.

“The continuous illegal and provocative modification of charges and the regular reproduction of same charges by the federal government are as primitive, callous, wicked and it is a middle ages type of practice which is totally unconstitutional.

“The ugly truth that the government has actually amended Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s charges for more than 4 times which is targeted at postponing the trial of Kanu is against constitutional democracy because JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED and because Nigerian Constitution has plainly spelt out the principle of check and balances among three arms of federal government, these backward tendencies of federal government to block the quick dispensation of justice is unnatural and monstrous.

“The constitutional principles of checks and balances are between the three arms of federal government namely, the legislative, the judiciary and the executive arms of federal government.

“But what the attorney general has actually done in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case is that he has pirated the function of the judicial arm through subterfuge exemplified by the consistent prohibited modifications of charges against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“If it remained in civilized climates Nigeria’s federal chief law officer would have been dismissed and disbarred from practicing law.

“We believe that he might still deal with the same sanction in the closest future.

It is insufficient that Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja had cautioned the Department of the State Services against taking over the security arrangement of the court on February 16 up until 12 pm.

The court had instructed DSS to only take control of the court security arrangement when the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on terrorism charges resumes.

Nyako likewise grumbled that other cases are affected each time Kanu’s trial happens due to heavy security existence and blockade of roadways causing the court.

Justice Nyako also moved the terrorism trial till 1 pm on Wednesday, February 16 to make sure that other cases are accommodated.

And HURIWA said it thinks that the court is timid in the face of aggressiveness targeting the whittling down of its constitutional powers and authority.

It stated the court needs to awaken and stop surrendering its powers, independence and authority to the impulses and caprices of the Executive arm of federal government and its guard dog, the DSS.