NNAMDI KANU’S ECOWAS COURT CASE AGAINST FG
Kanu, who has been in detention
since October 14, 2015, admitted before the court that he was the
founder of IPOB, a body he said was duly registered in over 30 countries
of the world. He further told the court that Radio Biafra Limited was
duly registered under the United Kingdom Companies Act, 2006, and
certified by the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales.
Nnamdi Kanu Nnamdi Kanu According to
the document before the court, IPOB was registered under the United
Kingdom Companies Act 2006, with certificate registration number
9141882. Kanu told the court that he came to Nigeria to visit his
parents as well to join his heavily-pregnant wife, who, he said, was
expected to give birth through caesarean operation in the UK.
More so, Kanu told the regional
court that his legs and hands were chained by operatives of the
Department of State Services, DSS, while he was in their detention
facility, a treatment he said “amounts to the worst dehumanisation,
degrading treatment and torture.”
Cited as defendants in the suit
marked ECW/CCJ/APP/06/16, which Kanu filed through his lawyer Mr.
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, are the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Attorney General
of the Federation and Minister of Justice, and the Director General,
Department of State Services, DSS.
The plaintiff told the ECOWAS court
that he is not facing any terrorism charge before any municipal court of
competent jurisdiction in Nigeria or elsewhere.
Aside praying the ECOWAS court to
order his release from detention, Kanu also wants “an order directing
the defendants and/or their agents individually and/or collectively to
pay $800 million to the plaintiff for the gross violation of his human
rights, the subject matter of this suit, and to provide other forms of
reparation, which may take the form of restitution, satisfaction or
guarantees of non-repetition, and other forms of reparation that the
honourable court may deem fit to grant.”
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