 Still in the news, the indigenous people of Biafra has warned that nothing must happen to its leader, Nandikano. The organization which said Kano was kidnapped by the government agents promised to expose details of his abduction later. Spokesperson for IPOB, Imah Powerful, said these in a statement titled, Nothing Should Happen to Our Leader, IPOB Tells Federal Government. According to him, the IPOB would not be intimidated into backing out of the struggle despite Kano's arrest. And joining us via Zoom is the legal representative of Nandikano Barista Aloi Ejimaku. Thanks for joining us, sir. Thank you. All right, quickly share with us, you know, what is the plan now that your client is in detention? Well, first of all, there are some preliminary issues that have to be ventilated before this matter can ever come to trial if at all. You see, we're talking of a situation where a citizen of the United Kingdom left the soil of the United Kingdom to a trip overseas and while he was in transit in an East African country, which has just been revealed to be Kenya, he was seized from the soil of that country and possibly brought into Nigeria against his will and against the will of the British authorities. You see, there are certain domestic, municipal, international and United Nations laws that should guide actions like this. There are mutual legal assistance treaties. There are laws on extradition proceedings. There are UN conventions on international objectives and Interpol, of course, has its own rules. Nigeria too has and Britain has. So how come none of these rules were followed before Khan was his, this is the will I'm talking about, this is exactly what we're talking about. So it is going to be an issue of the propriety of his being here against his will before we can even come to any question as to whether he committed any criminal offense or not. But when it comes to that, it's really going to revolve around what they are letting him date. This whole thing is about self-determination and his request for a referendum, none of which is listed under any written law in Nigeria as a criminal offense. So what really is he being accused of is not very clear, you know, that he's being accused of any specific offense. And in the circumstance, he should be regarded as a political prisoner. Simple. This matter is not criminal. It's political. All right, can you share, can you share a little? We'll be looking at. Yeah, hopefully before we go, we can talk about. Hopefully before we go, we can talk about the case proper. But can you share a little bit more on why he was in Kenya, why he traveled and, you know, the details concerning his being picked up in that country and brought to Nigeria? Is there a little bit more that Nigerians need to know? He has a right to travel and he wasn't an international fugitive. He might have been regarded as one by the authorities in Nigeria. But in every nation on the world, he was a free man. So he could leave the UK to go to the US, to Canada, to parts of Africa, Asia, anywhere he wished to go. In pursuit of his private business or the business of the indigenous people of Biafra. So to relay him and seize him without the process of law and bring him into this country when he wasn't traveling on Nigerian passport is something that really should shock the conscience of every man and woman out there. Okay, well, some of the, you know, things that have been mentioned, you know, that he is accused of, you know, treasonable felony and the likes. What would your response be to those who say that, you know, he basically, you know, had pushed his members and members of the IPO being to commit in crimes here in Nigeria, you know, and of course, the attacks in the Southeast, the attacks on the security agents. Is there a response that you can also share from your angle? Well, you see, it's not only that he can accuse, you also have to prove. So it also stopped with just, you know, leveling allegations. You have to keep in mind that since October 2017, when the IPOB was declared a terrorist organization in this country, and when I'm going back to it in 2015, when mass arrests of IPOB members began to occur to date, there has never been a single conviction of an IPOB member for any violent crime, not even to talk of terrorism. So isn't that going to be the first? We just have to look at the laws of statistics. IPOB has millions of members and thousands have been arrested since 2015, till then none has been convicted. All we hear about is arrest, arrest and charging them for terrorism, treasonable felony, treason. That's not enough. And the reason for zero conviction is easy to see. I don't think Nigerian judiciary in the end would believe that any member of IPOB actually committed any of these offenses that they have been accused of committing. That is why I say that to some extent I have implicit confidence in judicial authorities of this country to see through all of this, that this is not a matter for the criminal cause, but a matter for the political process. All right. Finally, what is his legal team like? And currently he is in detention. There are still any of his rights that have been broken. There's videos circulating the internet, seeing him being blindfolded while being moved in and out of court. You know, what is his, do you have any idea of his current condition while in detention? Well, I have to tell you quite honestly, the manner of his arraignment was quite shocking. The authorities were aware of the fact that Mr. Kanu has a tonnage of record. They should have been notified. I really mean with our benefit of counsel is a violation of his constitutional right to counsel. And this one, you're talking about blindfolding and all that, even though it's unverified, if it happened, it too violates his constitutional right to personal dignity and not to be treated, you know, to be treated decently. So all of these things, you know, coming to play when, when time comes for the health. But going forward, we hope that with due regards to the attention this matter is generating, both nationally and internationally, the federal government will be wise to treat him fairly with decency, with a more common respect and to be free from anything that will fail his personal dignity or that will have the imprimatur of torture. All right, various alloy. Ejimako, thank you very much for joining us. And we look forward to speaking with you again between now on the 26th and even further. It's my pleasure. Thanks a lot.