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A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, presided over by Justice Evelyn Anyadike, has ordered the federal government to pay Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), N500m for his extraordinary rendition from Kenya.
The judge condemned his arrest in Kenya, saying it violates his fundamental human rights, and ordered the federal government to maintain status quo before his adoption in Kenya.
Briefing newsmen in Umuahia after the court session, on Wednesday, Barr Aloy Ejimakor, the special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, said they are in the court to seek justice for the injustice done to their client Nnamdi Kanu by the federal government and he is happy that his client has gotten justice before the court.
He said that the suit is of a special class, saying that it is primarily aimed at redressing the infamous unlawful expulsion or extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu, which is a clear violation of his fundamental rights under article 12(4) of the African Rights as well as chapter IV of the Nigerian Constitution.
“The suit is Sui generics (of a special class) and it is primarily aimed at redressing the infamous unlawful expulsion or extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu which is a clear violation of his fundamental right under article 12 (4) of the African charter on Human and peoples Rights as well as chapter IV of the Nigerian Constitution,” he said.
He said that what the federal government did was a case of kidnapping, adding that since you can not prosecute the federal government on criminal offence, it was a civil matter on the violation of fundamental rights of Nnamdi Kanu.
He said that the judgement has proved that Nmandi Kanu is not a terrorist or IPOB a terrorist organization as no terrrorist organization has any lawyer defending them anywhere in the world.
He called on the federal government to do what is right by obeying the orders of court and restore the rights of Nnamdi Kanu.
He said that IPOB is not a terrorist organization, but a separatist group seeking for referendum through peaceful means and not through war.
Ejimakor said that the court has proved that it’s the last hope of the common man and ever ready to checkmate executive recklessness anytime it occurs.
