NNAMDI KANU’S N8.5 BILLION SUIT AGAINST BUHARI, MORE DETAILS EMERGE
The group is seeking damages and
compensation for dead and wounded members it claimed were “wickedly and
brutally killed by combined forces of the Nigerian army, the Department
of State Services, DSS, and the Nigerian Police.”
According to the plaintiff, about
153 of IPOB members were killed during a peaceful protests in Onitsha,
Aba and other parts of the South-East and South-South of Nigeria late
last year and early this year. It said that over 50 of them received
different degrees of wounds during a peaceful protest for the release of
its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
However, the detained IPOB leader
has blamed President Buhari for making comments prejudicial to his trial
and the bail request he filed before the Abuja Division of the Court of
Appeal.
Kanu is in the custody of the State
Security Service since he was arrested on October 14, 2015. IPOB has
also launched a formal complaint for damages and N100 million to be paid
to each family of deceased IPOB members while N50 million damages is
demanded for injured members of the group.
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