“Hope Uzodima Wants to be the Sariki of Imo State – Nnamdi Kanu

Leader of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has called out Governor Hope Uzodinma once more for a recent ‘autocratic bye-law’ created in Imo State.

Speaking further in his weekly broadcast on Radio Biafra, the supreme leader says “Hope Uzodima wants to be the Sariki of Imo state.”

The new law in Imo state set-up by Uzodinma’s led government gives the ‘Governor’ absolute power to detain anyone he likes at pleasure. The Imo State Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2020 empowers the state governor to detain anyone at his pleasure without the need for a court warrant.

Sections 484 and 485 of the law provide that the governor may effect such detention notwithstanding the provisions of any other law.

Section 484 of the law reads: “Where any person is ordered to be detained during the Governor’s pleasure he shall notwithstanding anything in this Law or in any other written law contained be liable to be detained in such place and under such conditions as the Governor may direct and whilst so detained shall be deemed to be in legal custody.”

Section 485 provides that such person “detained during the Governor’s pleasure may at any time be discharged by the Governor on license” and that “a license under subsection (1) of this section may be in such form and may contain such conditions as the Governor may direct”.