Just in: Nnamdi Kanu wins again in Court

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, secured another victory against the federal government in his fight against his extradition from Kenya.

Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia upheld Kanu’s suit against the federal government, and awarded a cost of N500 million against the Nigerian government.

Recall that the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on October 13 upheld the appeal of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

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The court also discharged and acquitted the embattled leader of the proscribed group.

Kanu had in his appeal dated April 29 and marked CA/ABJ/CR/625/2022 applied to be discharged and acquitted. Kanu was first arraigned on December 23, 2015, and was later granted bail on April 25, 2017.

However, the Court of Appeal declared as illegal and unlawful, the abduction Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria and quashed the entire terrorism charges brought against him by the Federal Government.

The Appellate Court held that the Federal Government breached all local and international laws in the forceful rendition of Kanu to Nigeria thereby making the terrorism charges against him incompetent and unlawful.

However, the federal government appealed the judgment, describing Kanu as a security threat to the country.

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