Nnamdi Kanu Makes U-Turn, Sues FG, Others For N5bn, Over Violation Of His Human Rights

The Federal Authorities, the Nigeria Military, the Division of State Service (DSS), and the Nigeria police are respondents within the swimsuit.

 

Kanu, in an eight-point prayer, is looking for enforcement of his elementary rights and needs the court docket to, amongst different issues, halt his trial at present in movement on the Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja.

 

His particular counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, disclosed in an announcement on Tuesday, that Kanu had secured an order from the Excessive Court docket of Abia State to serve by substituted means, an utility for enforcement of the basic rights of Kanu, which he just lately introduced earlier than the Excessive Court docket of Abia State.

 

He additionally requested the court docket to mandate the respondents to pay the sum of N5000,000,000 (5 billion naira) for the bodily, psychological, emotional, psychological, and different damages suffered as claimed by the applicant.

 

The following listening to date is ready for September 21, in Umuahia.

 

Learn the complete assertion under.

 

Nnamdi Kanu Commences Enforcement Of His Basic Rights

 

Right now, I secured an Order from the Excessive Court docket of Abia State to serve by substituted means an Software for enforcement of the Basic Rights of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, which I just lately introduced earlier than the Excessive Court docket of Abia State.

 

The following listening to date is ready for twenty first September, 2021 in Umuahia.

 

The fabric situation is the unbroken chain of infringements that started with the 2017 extrajudicial try on Kanu’s life in Abia State; his involuntary flight to security/exile; his abduction in Kenya and his extraordinary rendition to Nigeria.

 

We consider that these supervening points have difficult Kanu’s prosecution and thus have to be judicially disbursed with earlier than any additional prosecutorial motion can proceed.

Accordingly, I’ve positioned the next reliefs earlier than the Court docket:

 

1, A DECLARATION that the navy invasion of the Applicant’s constructing and premises at Isiama, Afaraukwu Ibeku, Abia State on tenth September, 2017 by the Respondents or their brokers is against the law, illegal, unconstitutional and quantity to infringement of the Applicant’s elementary proper to life, dignity of his particular person, his private liberty and truthful listening to as assured underneath the pertinent provisions of Chapter IV of the Structure of Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (hereafter, CFRN) and the African Constitution on Human and Folks’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act (hereafter, the Constitution).

 

2, A DECLARATION that the arrest of the Applicant in Kenya by the Respondents or their brokers with out due strategy of legislation is bigoted, unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional and quantities to infringement of the Applicant’s elementary proper in opposition to arbitrary arrest, to his private liberty and to truthful listening to as enshrined and assured underneath the pertinent provisions of CFRN and the Constitution.

 

3, A DECLARATION that the torture and detention of the Applicant in Kenya by the Respondents or their brokers is against the law, illegal, unconstitutional and quantities to infringement of the Applicant’s elementary proper in opposition to torture and to truthful listening to, as enshrined and assured underneath the pertinent provisions of CFRN and the Constitution).

 

4, A DECLARATION that the expulsion of the Applicant from Kenya to Nigeria by the Respondents or their brokers and their consequent detention and deliberate prosecution of the Applicant in Cost No: FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015 (Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Nnamdi Kanu) is against the law, illegal, unconstitutional and quantity to infringement of the Applicant’s elementary proper in opposition to illegal expulsion and detention, and to truthful listening to, as enshrined and assured underneath the pertinent provisions of CFRN and the Constitution).

 

5, AN ORDER OF INJUNCTION restraining the Respondents or their brokers from taking any additional step within the prosecution of the Applicant in Cost No: FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015 (Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Nnamdi Kanu) pursuant to mentioned illegal expulsion of the Applicant from Kenya to Nigeria.

 

6, AN ORDER mandating and compelling the the Respondents or their brokers to forthwith launch the Applicant from detention and restitute or in any other case restore Applicant to his liberty, similar being his state of being as of nineteenth June, 2021; and to thereupon repatriate the Applicant to his nation of domicile (to wit: Britain) to await the result of any formal request the Respondents might file earlier than the competent authorities in Britain for the lawful extradition of the Applicant to Nigeria to proceed his prosecution in Cost No: FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015 (Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Nnamdi Kanu).

 

7, AN ORDER mandating and compelling the Respondents to situation an official Letter of Apology to the Applicant for the infringement of his elementary rights; and publication of mentioned Letter of Apology in three (3) nationwide dailies.

 

8, AN ORDER mandating and compelling the Respondents to pay the sum of N5000,000,000.00 (5 Billion Naira) to the Applicant, being financial damages claimed by the Applicant in opposition to the Respondents collectively and severally for the bodily, psychological, emotional, psychological and different damages suffered by the Applicant because of the infringements of Applicant’s elementary rights.