Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been discharged and acquitted.
Newsone reports that the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, has discharged and acquired the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of terrorism charges.
This online news platform understands that the Biafra activist Kanu approached the Appeal Court seeking to quash terrorism charges brought against him by the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Newsone Nigeria reports that the IPOB leader had faulted the order of Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, which ordered him to answer seven out of the 15-count terrorism charge against him.
The IPOB leader had prayed the appellate court to quash the entire charges and set him free on various grounds. He had said the purported offences were not committed in Nigeria.
Ruling on the matter today, Thursday, October 13, 2022, Justice Hanatu Sankey-led 3-man panel of Justices, discharged Kanu.
The ruling was disclosed by Kanu’s lead counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor in a series of tweets on the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Thursday evening.
Ejiofor tweeted: “Onyendu MAZI NNAMDI KANU’s abduction and extraordinary rendition from Kenya is declared illegal and consequently constitutes a bar to further proceeding /trial. Court Held that It was done in clear and egregious violation of extant international laws.
“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 ONYENDU MAZI NNAMDI KANU.
UPDATE
Onyendu MAZI NNAMDI KANU’s abduction and extraordinary rendition from Kenya is declared illegal and consequently constitutes a bar to further proceeding /trial . Court Held that It was done in clear and egregious violation of extant international laws
— bar ifeanyi ejiofor (@EjioforBar) October 13, 2022
“Appeal allowed, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi KANU, discharged and acquitted. We have won ! Victory victory victory victory.”
Appeal allowed , Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi KANU, discharged and acquitted.
We have won !
Victory victory victory victory— bar ifeanyi ejiofor (@EjioforBar) October 13, 2022
