… seeks $800m compensation By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The
detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has
prayed the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African
States, ECOWAS, to compel the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay him monetary
compensation of $800 million for the gross violation of his human rights. Kanu,
who has been in detention since October 14, 2015, admitted before the court
that he was......
the founder of IPOB, a body he said was duly registered in over 30
countries of the world. He further told the court that Radio Biafra Limited was
duly registered under the United Kingdom Companies Act, 2006, and certified by
the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales. Nnamdi Kanu According to the
document before the court, IPOB was registered under the United Kingdom
Companies Act 2006, with certificate registration number 9141882. Kanu told the
court that he came to Nigeria to visit his parents as well to join his
heavily-pregnant wife, who, he said, was expected to give birth through
caesarean operation in the UK. More so, Kanu told the regional court that his
legs and hands were chained by operatives of the Department of State Services,
DSS, while he was in their detention facility, a treatment he said “amounts to
the worst dehumanisation, degrading treatment and torture.”
Cited as defendants
in the suit marked ECW/CCJ/APP/06/16, which Kanu filed through his lawyer Mr.
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, are the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Attorney General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice, and the Director General, Department of
State Services, DSS. The plaintiff told the ECOWAS court that he is not facing
any terrorism charge before any municipal court of competent jurisdiction in
Nigeria or elsewhere. Aside praying the ECOWAS court to order his release from
detention, Kanu also wants “an order directing the defendants and/or their
agents individually and/or collectively to pay $800 million to the plaintiff
for the gross violation of his human rights, the subject matter of this suit,
and to provide other forms of reparation, which may take the form of
restitution, satisfaction or guarantees of non-repetition, and other forms of
reparation that the honourable court may deem fit to grant.” 0 0 Abiodun View
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