By Aloy Ejimakor
This piece is a summary of
the legal/other consequences of the Army's mid-September armed invasions of
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's homestead at Umuahia, Abia State .
The state of affairs before the invasion was that Nnamdi Kanu was free on bail
on a subsisting court order; his bail was not on personal recognizance but on a
bond posted by a third-party obligor/surety; and Kanu was neither
judicially-ordered to be re-arrested for breaching his bail, or on account of
any new charges filed.
*Kanu |
It is beyond argument that the invasion achieved
complete routing of Nnamdi Kanu's home and caused fatalities and injuries to a
yet to be determined number of people, including Nnamdi Kanu, who were present
and trapped at the premises throughout the attacks. The invading forces also
'captured' an undetermined number of occupants of the premises, none of whom is
accounted for to date. Most significantly, Nnamdi Kanu has not been seen or
heard from since then.
The inevitable
question that has arisen from the foregoing set of facts is this: What are the
consequences of such an obviously deadly military action against an accused
person who was free on bail? The following analysis will provide some answers.