The Supreme Court has scheduled December 15 as the date for announcing its decision on the appeal aiming to compel the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), from detention.
A five-part board drove by Equity Kudirat Kekere-Ekun at the peak court endorsed the case for judgment following the reception of conclusive briefs of contention by guides for both the National Government and the confined IPOB pioneer.
The group of legal advisors addressing the Central Government is going by Mr. T. A. Gazzali, SAN, an Acting Overseer of Common Requests at the Government Service of Equity.
On the opposite side, Mr. Kanu Agabi, SAN, a previous Principal legal officer of the Organization and Clergyman of Equity, drove Kanu’s legitimate group.
Agabi, SAN, headed Kanu’s lawful group, yet it was Prof. Mike Ozehkome, SAN, who introduced his allure for the summit court board.
Ozehkome, SAN, implored the court to not just request the prompt arrival of his client from detainment yet to similarly grant a “exceptionally weighty and corrective expense” against the National Government.
“We encourage my rulers to maintain our Cross-Allure to do significant equity to this and to the Respondent who has been in detainment since June 29, 2021, even after the lower court requested his delivery and that he ought to at absolutely no point ever be arraigned in the future on similar counts.
“They are as yet holding him illegally. We supplicate my masters to convey equity and utilize this case, very much like in Ojukwu Versus State, to show that no man or government ought to be exempt from the rules that everyone else follows,” Ozehkome, SAN, argued.
What the FG is Talking about
In the mean time, Central Government’s guidance, Gazzali, SAN, encouraged the most elevated court to keep up with the altered brief of contention he had recorded on May 3, 2023, in his show.
He mentioned the court to give the national government’s allure, upset the Court of Allure’s choice to deliver Kanu, and train the continuation of his psychological warfare related preliminary at the Bureaucratic High Court in Abuja.
Gazzali, SAN, further asked the summit court to excuse Kanu’s Cross-Allure.
What You ought to Be aware
The Court of Allure in Abuja gave a judgment on October 13, 2022, requesting Kanu’s delivery from detainment.
The re-appraising court’s three-part board collectively struck down each of the 15 counts of psychological warfare charges that the FG had demanded against the kept IPOB pioneer in the Government High Court in Abuja.
The court said that the public authority explicitly dismissed laid out regulations by effectively removing Kanu from Kenya to proceed with his preliminary in the country.
The Central Government, in conflict with the decision, selected to take the case to the High Court.
The Central Government likewise persuaded the investigative court to postpone the execution of the judgment while its allure was under survey.
