Detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has slammed a N100billion fundamental rights enforcement suit against the Federal Government, over his continued detention in the custody of the Department of State Services.
Kanu explained that he filed the suit
following the continued grandstanding of the Federal Government to implement the Orders/Judgment of the Court of Appeal, delivered on October 13, which in effect, discharged him of the frivolous charge brought against him by the Federal Government.
The appellate court had in it’s judgment, further prohibited the Federal Government from further detaining Kanu, and/or subjecting him to further trial or prosecution by any court in Nigeria.
The fundamental rights enforcement suit filed at the Federal High Court Abuja, is seeking the immediate release from the unlawful facility of the Department of State Services and payment of the sum of N100billion reparation for the gross violation of his rights to liberty and dignity of human persons.
The originating court process, filed by Chief Dr. Mike Ozekhome, SAN, on behalf of Kanu, dated October 21, 2022, is marked in FHC/ABJ/CS/1945/2022.
Kanu wants a declaration that his continued detention by the Federal Government from the 13th day of October 2022 till date, is illegal, unlawful, oppressive, unconscionable, and unconstitutional as it violates his fundamental rights to dignity of human persons, personal liberty and right to freedom of movement as guaranteed by Sections 34, 35, 36, 39, and 41 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended) 2011.
The applicant is seeking an order
directing the Respondents to unconditionally release him from their custody forthwith.
Kanu is also praying for an order restraining the Respondents, their agents, privies, assigns or howsoever called, from further interfering with the his rights, and/or dealing with him in a manner inimical to his fundamental rights guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended) 2011.
Besides,he is seeking a compensatory and examplary damages of N100bn against the Respondents for the gross violation of the his fundamental rights to dignity of human person, personal liberty, and freedom of movement.