Nnamdi Kanu Seeks Return To UK Over Human Rights Volations By Chinedu Aroh Mar 26, 2022 | EASTERN PILOT The detained leader of the Indi...
Nnamdi Kanu Seeks Return To UK Over Human Rights Volations
By Chinedu Aroh
Mar 26, 2022 | EASTERN PILOT
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Friday, approached the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia to award him the sum of N25bn against the federal government for allegedly violating his fundamental human rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.
Kanu, led by his special counsel, Barr Aloy Ejimakor, told newsmen that, “I am leading a team of lawyers at the first hearing of the Fundamental Rights Enforcement suit I had brought before the Umuahia Division of the Federal High Court. The matter lies before Justice Evelyn Anyadike.”
Ejimakor is asking the court to ‘redress the myriad violations that came with the rendition, such as the torture, the unlawful detention and the denial of his right to the fair hearing required by law before anybody is expelled from one country to the other’.
THE WHISTLER reports that on 19th January, 2022, the High Court of Abia State determined that portion of violation of Kanu’s fundamental rights that occurred in 2017, awarding damages against the federal government in the ruling.
According to Ejimakor, “This instant suit is as a result of my considered decision that a fresh action before the Federal High will be the best route towards addressing this matter of rendition or unlawful expulsion and its legal impacts on the prosecutorial powers of the Nigerian State.
“The extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu triggered legal injuries that cut across multiple jurisdictions both inside Nigeria and abroad.
“There are now new legal and even diplomatic issues that must be addressed in the United Kingdom, Kenya, the United Nations and the African Union. And within Nigeria, the rendition has expanded the matter far beyond the realms of the trial that lies in Abuja.”
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