Court Verdict On IPOB Proscription
Court Verdict On IPOB Proscription
Members are not committing any wrong, and therefore, you cannot grant arrest, detention and prosecution of any IPOB member, including Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on the basis of self-determination.
“The South East governors fired the first salvo in September 2017, followed by an executive decision by the federal government to proscribe IPOB, and then the declaration of IPOB as a terrorist organization.
“Such actions are prohibited expressly under Section 42 of the Nigerian Constitution. It is a fundamental right of every Nigerian not to be discriminated against in the exercise of government decisions, policies and actions.
The FG never took any step to proscribe anyone of them or declare any of them a terrorist group. It took this proactive step, supported by Southeast governors in targeting IPOB in particular.”
He said the legal team which he led took the matter to court to interrogate the actions of South East governors in line with the provisions of the constitution.
In his words, “You can make all these allegations in the media, but if you don’t take them to court to be adjudicated, they remain mere allegations. So we decided that the best thing to do is to test the rightness or wrongness of this decision taken against IPOB.
“We asked for many things, and they were granted, except that the court doesn’t have the jurisdiction on the ongoing criminal proceedings against Kanu because it is already before the Supreme Court. But it graciously granted our requests on those reliefs it feels that it has jurisdiction.
The court also granted the reliefs that a public apology be tendered to Kanu in three national dailies, and awarded N8bn monetary compensation to the IPOB leader. The court did not order his release because it was before the Supreme Court.
Special counsel to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Barr Aloy Ejimakor, ha explained how the ruling of Enugu State High Court that the Indigenous People of Biafra is not a terrorist organization will save thousands of lives and also liberate Nigerians from excessive government.
Ejimakor said the judgement has shown that IPOB is not doing anything wrong.
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