The embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has been discharged and acquitted of all charges preferred against him.
A three-man panel of Appeal Court sitting in Abuja held that the Federal High Court lacks the jurisdiction to try Kanu in view of his abduction and extraordinary rendition to Nigeria, describing it as as flagrant violation of the OAU convention and protocol on extradition.
The Court declared that Kanu’s abduction and extraordinary rendition from Kenya is illegal and consequently constitutes a bar to further proceeding and trial.
Court held that It was done in clear and egregious violation of extant international laws, stressing there is no justification whatsoever even the warrant of arrest issued in NIGERIA can not justify the illegality in the abduction and extraordinary rendition of Kanu.
Kanu is being prosecuted by the Federal Government at the Federal High Court in Abuja for 15 count charges bordering, including treasonable felony and terrorism, offences he allegedly committed in the course of his separatist campaigns.
Kanu’s legal team had appealed against the ruling of Justice Nyako and the Court of Appeal, Abuja, today discharged and acquitted him of all charges filed by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
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