Kanu’s trial: Again, IPOB chides DSS over ‘incompetent’ witnesses, alleges PW3-CCC in Thursday’s proceedings ‘mercenary’ not DSS operative
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has again slammed the Directorate of State Services (DSS) for what the self-determination group called the ‘fraudulent’ and ‘incompetent’ witnesses that the nation’s secret police has been lining up since the treason trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu resumed on March 21 under Justice James Omotosho.
In a statement last night – Thursday, May 29 – by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB pooh-poohed the DSS’s star witness, codenamed PW3-CCC, for his “total” lack of understanding of the Kanu case, and the DSS for ‘manufacturing’ a pack of lies as evidences against Kanu.
“We are compelled once again to alert the international community and lovers of justice everywhere that the Federal Government of Nigeria has reached new depths of shame and desperation in its malicious and politically motivated trial of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,” IPOB said in the statement by Powerful.
“Today (yesterday, May 29) in court, the so-called prosecution suffered a devastating blow when its star witness, codenamed PW3-CCC, was thoroughly disgraced, dismantled and exposed as a lying mercenary masquerading as a member of the DSS. This charade was so pitiful and incompetent that even the government’s usual mouthpieces in the compromised media landscape were forced into total and embarrassing silence.
“The impostor who took the stand today claimed to be an intelligence operative, yet under cross-examination could not even identify the name of the highest-ranking investigative officer at the DSS headquarters – the Assistant Director of Investigations (AD Investigations). For anyone who claims to have had anything to do with DSS investigations in 2015, that failure alone proves conclusively that this man is a fraud and his testimony a manufactured lie.”
According to IPOB, the failure of the prosecution witness to identify where the DSS underground detention facility is located is another clearly “damning evidence” that PW3-CCC is a fraud”.
“His ignorance speaks volumes. No one who truly worked in DSS would not know that,” the pro-Biafra group chided.
“This level of confusion and incompetence from a supposed federal witness only reinforces what we have said from day one: the Nigerian government is fabricating evidence, shopping for facts, and using mercenaries to sustain a crumbling case built on political vengeance, not law.
“Today, their house of lies collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. The courtroom saw the humiliation of the lead prosecutor and his prosecution team in real time, as their witness stumbled, faltered, and contradicted himself into irrelevance. This disgrace is not only theirs—it is Nigeria’s, for choosing to proceed with this charade despite having no case in law or in fact.”
Insisting that the case against Nnamdi Kanu is built on a pack of cards, IPOB argued that “a prosecution team with integrity would have filed a nolle prosequi today to withdraw this nonsense and save what little face remains.”
“But shame is a foreign concept in the corridors of power in Nigeria, so instead, they will dig themselves deeper into the pit they created,” IPOB sneered.
“Tomorrow, they may attempt to pivot to phantom “transmitter”- a matter already decided at the Appeal Court, or some other farce, but the world is watching. Every desperate move they make only confirms what we have always known: this is a political persecution, not a prosecution.
“We salute our legal team, especially Chief Paul Erokoro SAN, for peeling back the mask of deception and exposing the truth. No amount of media silence or intelligence theater can erase the embarrassment the Nigerian state suffered today.
“The world must act. The international community must speak out. Justice delayed is justice denied—and in this case, justice is being buried beneath a mountain of lies.”
