Buhari lacks moral justification to
send troops to Gambia – Nnamdi
Kanu’s lawyer
– A lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra has said that President
Muhammadu Buhari lack the justification
to deploy Nigerian troops to Gambia
– The lawyer said that the action by the
president is hypocritical
– He said Nigeria has no business in
Gambia having disobeyed several court
orders in the country
Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer has said that President
Muhammadu Buhari has no right to deploy
troops to Gambia
A lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra has said that President
Muhammadu Buhari lack the
justification to deploy Nigerian troops
to Gambia.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Ifeanyi
Ejiofor said the action by the president
is hypocritical.
It is purely hypocritical, only a few days
ago, troops were deployed to Gambia to
enforce orders made by ECOWAS, the
same ECOWAS that the federal
government had disobeyed their order.
“You are talking about going to another
country to go and enforce rule of law
when in your own country you have not
been able to obey orders made by the
court,” Ejiofor said.
“It is also in this country that we have
an order where a court directed that
Dasuki should be released by ECOWAS
court, that ECOWAS court that you are
trying to go and defend their interest,
you are yet to comply with their order
concerning your country,” he said.
Citing more cases like that of the leader
of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria
Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, Ejiofor said Nigeria
has no business in Gambia having
disobeyed several court orders in the
country.
“All these orders made by both local and
international courts, you disobeyed, now
you have the effrontery to deploy troops
to Gambia to go and enforce rule of law
over there, is that possible?” Ejiofor
asked.
On Tuesday, January 18, the Nigerian
air force deployed 200 troops to Gambia
in preparation for the inauguration of
Adama Barrow, Gambia’s president-
elect.
The deployment of the troops came after
the Economic Community of West
African States (ECOWAS) ordered the
deployment of military contingency to
Gambia.
The contingency were deployed to
ensure a peaceful transition of power
between the nation’s president Yahya
Jammeh and the president-elect.
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