Abia State High Court sitting in Umuahia, Friday reserved judgement on suit brought before it by the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, challenging his “rendition from Kenya, unlawful, detention and subsequent trial by the Federal Government.�
Presiding Judge, Justice Benson Anya, after listening to the submissions by Counsels to all the parties to the matter, announced that a date would be communicated later to them for judgement.
Counsels to the various parties had adopted their preliminary objections, written applications and the supporting affidavits before the announcement by the presiding Judge.
Kanu had through his special counsel, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor, sued the Federal Government of Nigeria for his “extra-ordinary rendition from Kenya�.
He demands among other things that he be returned to Kenya where he was “abuducted�, and then to Britain where he resides; and paid N5 billion for the gross violation of his fundamental human rights.
The respondents include: the Federal Government of Nigeria: the Attorney General of the Federation; the Chief of Army Staff; Brigade Commander, 14 Brigade Ohafia; the Inspector General of Police, IGP; Commissioner of Police, Abia State; the Director General of the Department of State Security Services, DSS; and the Abia State Director of DSS.
In his submissions, Ejimakor argued that Kanu’s fundamental rights were violated by the federal government and its agencies by “abducting him from Kenya back to Nigeria without illegally without due process�.
He argued that the federal government should not benefit from “its act of illegality�, and prayed the court to declare the ongoing detention and trial of Kanu illegal and order his release.
