Afrigather The Courtroom of Attraction sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday upheld the enchantment of the detained chief of the proscribed Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
The court docket additionally discharged and acquitted the embattled chief of the proscribed group.
Kanu had in his enchantment dated April 29 and marked CA/ABJ/CR/625/2022 utilized to be discharged and acquitted. Kanu was first arraigned on December 23, 2015, and was later granted bail on April 25, 2017.
Nevertheless, the Courtroom of Attraction on Thursday declared as unlawful and illegal, the kidnapping Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria and quashed your complete terrorism fees introduced towards him by the Federal Authorities.
The Appellate Courtroom held that the Federal Authorities breached all native and worldwide legal guidelines within the forceful rendition of Kanu to Nigeria thereby making the terrorism fees towards him incompetent and illegal.
The Attraction Courtroom in a judgment by Justice Oludotun Adebola voided and put aside the fees by the Federal Authorities towards Kanu.
The Appellate Courtroom proceeded to discharge Kanu from the alleged offences.
Justice Adebola held that failure of Nigeria to observe due course of by means of Extradition was deadly to the fees towards Kanu.
The Attraction Courtroom additional held that the failure of the Federal Authorities to reveal the place and when the alleged offences had been dedicated was additionally deadly to the terrorism fees and made them liable to dismissal.
Reacting to the judgment, Kanu’s lawyer and human rights activist, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, on his Fb web page on Thursday, mentioned Kanu gained finally.
“Attraction allowed, Oyendu Mazi Nnamdi KANU, discharged and acquitted. We’ve gained!” he wrote.
When contacted, the prosecuting counsel for the Federal Authorities, David Kaswe, informed The PUNCH that he didn’t have something to say about it.
“I don’t have something to say about it. I’m not the right authority to talk on it,” he mentioned.
