The court declared that self-determination was not a crime, and therefore, cannot be used as a basis to arrest, detain and prosecute Nnamdi Kanu.
The judge, A.O. Onovo, in his judgment, declared that the reliance on the country’s Terrorism Prevention Act and the administrative action of the South-east Governors’ Forum and the federal government to pro 39mscribe IPOB contravened Section 42 of the Nigerian Constitution which prohibits discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, according to a statement from Aloy Ejimakor, a special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB.
Mr Ejimakor and five other lawyers represented Mr Kanu, while the respondents were represented by Simon Enoch. It ordered the federal government and the other respondents to jointly pay Mr Kanu N8 billion as damages for the physical, mental, emotional, psychological, property and other damages he suffered as a result of the infringements of his fundamental rights.
“We didn’t come to court to contest the judicial proscription, it’s a different matter altogether, but the executive action taken before the judicial decision because such actions are prohibited under Section 42 of the Nigerian Constitution,” he said.The lawyer said that IPOB caters for the interest of the Igboland, and that the government singled it out for proscription.
Mr Enoch, the lawyer to the respondents, declined comment on the development when PREMIUM TIMES contacted him.
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