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Technically, Nnamdi Kanu Is Still In Kenya – Lawyer
- Kanu was recently rearrested and repatriated to Nigeria from an undisclosed African country
Aloy Ejimakor, legal counsel for the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has said that the pro-Biafra agitator is “technically still in Kenya.”
Ejimakor explained that Kanu travelled to Kenya on a British passport, hence should have been expelled to the same country and not Nigeria.
Kanu was recently rearrested and repatriated to Nigeria from an undisclosed African country his close associates believes to be Kenya.
Ejimakor, in a statement he signed entitled: “Kanu is technically still in Kenya,” said it was dubious that Kenya attributed Kanu’s citizenship to Nigeria because it’s his place of birth.
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The statement reads partly: “Yes, that’s right: In the purest interpretations of foreign relations law, as applied to Britain and Kenya, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is technically speaking, still in Kenya. How? Dual national or not, Kanu departed Britain and travelled to Kenya as a British citizen and Kenya admitted him as such. That’s the starting point.
“So, after his admission to Kenya, it happens that Kanu must be expelled from Kenyan soil (with or without due process), the next natural and legal thing to do is for Kenya to expel him to Britain, not Nigeria. Choosing to expel him to Nigeria means that he could’ve also been expelled to any other country than Nigeria.”
Ejimakor also accused Kenya of attributing Nigerian citizenship to Kanu despite entering the East African country with a British passport because sponsors of the abduction and rendition presumably told Kenya that Kanu was born in Nigeria.
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