Nnamdi Kanu Gets Oct 27 Date In Court Against FG

• Over alleged attack on country home, extraordinary rendition from Kenya

BY ONYEKACHUKWU IBEZIM – A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital has reserved ruling for October 27, 2022 on Nnamdi Kanu’s 8-point application over the Federal Government’s alleged attack on his country home and extraordinary rendition from Kenya.

The suit before the Court, presided over by Justice Evelyn Anyadike, is sui generis (of a special class).

Primarily, the case seeks to redress the infamous unlawful expulsion or extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu, which is said to be a violation of his fundamental rights under Article 12(4) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, as well as Chapter IV of the Nigerian Constitution.

In addition to the rendition, the special counsel for Nnamdi Kanu/Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), Aloy Ejimakor, is praying the court to redress the myriad violations that came with the rendition.

These include the torture, the unlawful detention and the denial of the right to fair hearing which is required by law before anybody can be expelled from one country to the other.

According to Ejimakor; “I am also seeking to halt his prosecution and restore him to the status quo before his rendition on 19th June, 2021″.

The extraordinary rendition suit by the embattled IPOB Leader was filed before the court in March this year.

On January 19, 2022, the High Court of Abia State had decided the portion of violation of Kanu’s fundamental rights that occurred in 2017.

Further explaining his position on the matter, Ejimakor said; “Even as I had made claims that bordered on rendition, the Court declined jurisdiction on grounds that rendition, being related to extradition, lies within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal High Court.

“This is what informed my decision to initiate the suit before the Federal High Court.”