A Federal High Court in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, has ordered the Federal Government to return embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kani to Kenya, where he was abducted from.
The Court also ordered the government to pay the sum of N500 million as damages to Kanu over his illegal abduction and human rights abuse.
The Court in its ruling, ordered the Nigerian government to return Kanu to Kenya from where he was extradited to Nigeria on June 19, 2021.
Presiding judge, Justice E . N Anyadike, described the extradition of Kanu from Kenya without recourse to the legal process as a flagrant abuse of the fundamental human rights of the separatist.
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Anyadike held that the government failed to disprove the claims of Kanu that he was arrested, blindfolded, tortured, and chained to the ground for eight days in Kenya before his extradition to Nigeria.
Kanu had through his special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, approached the court to challenge his extradition from Kenya on June 19, 2022.
Addressing journalists safter the judgment, Ejimakor said the judgment has shown that the court still remains the last hope for the common man, and urged the federal government to obey the Court order and return Kanu to Kenya.
