The hearing of the N20bn suit
filed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, against
the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has been discontinued.
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the
Federal High Court in Abuja had fixed November 18 for hearing of the suit,
which also named the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency,
Ahmed Abubakar, as a defendant.
But in an update by Kanu’s
lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, via his Twitter page, the case had been discontinued.
He tweeted on Thursday, “UPDATE
on #MNK outstanding cases in which I’m directly involved:
“The United Kingdom case is
awaiting decision. Federal High Court case for Nov 18 is discontinued.
“The AU (African Union) case is
awaiting decision.
“United Nations Opinion has been
escalated to other tribunals.
“The Kenyan case is set for February 2023,
(sad).”
Kanu, through Ejimakor, had filed
a writ of summons marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1702/222.
The application, dated and filed
on September 23, listed Malami and Abubakar as the first and second defendants,
respectively.
Ejimakor sought “a declaration
that the defendant’s arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff (Kanu) at a
location in Kenya and the subsequent imprisonment of the plaintiff in the
aircraft that conveyed him from Kenya to Nigeria amounted to false arrest and
false imprisonment;
“A declaration of this honourable
court that the defendants acted in bad faith and/or abused their public offices
in falsely arresting and falsely imprisoning the plaintiff at the said location
in Kenya and said aircraft;
“An order of this honourable
court directing the defendants to, jointly and severally, pay to the plaintiff
the sum of N20,000,000,000.00 being general and exemplary damages;
“An order of this honourable
court directing the defendants to separately write and deliver to the plaintiff
an unreserved personal letter of apology.”
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