Kanu was extradited to Nigeria from East African country in June 2021. In the lawsuit, filed through his attorney Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu challenged his extradition from Kenya by "federal government agents."
The court awards Kanu N500 million in damages and orders FG to bring him back to Kenya where he was kidnapped (IPOB). The court also ordered the federal government to pay the leader N500 million in damages for the violation of human rights by kidnapping and forcibly extraditing him to Kenya in June last year.
Kanu was extradited to Nigeria from East African country in June 2021. In the lawsuit, filed through his attorney Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu challenged his extradition from Kenya by "federal government agents."
Kanu claimed he was kidnapped in Kenya and taken back to Nigeria to stand trial. He argued that the federal government should be required to produce the legal document or authority that served as the basis for his "kidnapping or extraordinary rendition." "My client remains an unlawfully deported person and cannot stand trial because he was unlawfully extradited," the lawyer said.
He also said that as early as , the United Nations Commission on Human Rights ordered the Nigerian authorities to unconditionally release Kanu and compensate him for violating basic human rights. Among various legal remedies, Kanu prayed to the court for "an order ordering and compelling the defendants to pay the sum of N25,000,000,000."
00 (twenty-five billion naira) to the Complainant, which is the monetary compensation which the Complainant is jointly and severally seeking against the Defendants for the physical, mental, emotional, psychological, pecuniary and other damages caused to the Complainant as a result arose from the violation of the complainant's fundamental rights by the defendants".
An order is also being sought to halt Kanus' prosecution and restore him to the status quo prior to his June 19, 2021 surrender. In deciding the lawsuit on Wednesday, President Evelyn Anyadike agreed that taking Kanu's extradition from Kenya to court without recourse was a flagrant violation of his basic human rights.
It found that the defendant had failed to refute the applicant's allegations that he had been arrested in Kenya for eight days, blindfolded and chained to the ground for eight days before being extradited. This ruling comes just a week after the Abuja Court of Appeal acquitted Kanu of terrorism charges alleging he was illegally extradited to Nigeria.
The court also ruled that following the applicant's "unlawful and forcible extradition" the trial court was relieved of its jurisdiction over further proceedings against Kanu.
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