{"id":100776,"date":"2022-10-28T18:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=100776"},"modified":"2022-10-28T18:01:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:01:43","slug":"court-fixes-hearing-on-nnamdi-kanus-n20bn-suit-against-malami-nia-for-nov-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/court-fixes-hearing-on-nnamdi-kanus-n20bn-suit-against-malami-nia-for-nov-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Court fixes hearing on Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s N20bn suit against Malami, NIA for Nov 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed Nov 18 for hearing a N20bn suit filed by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, SAN.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date for hearing the suit, which also has the Director-General of National Intelligence Agency (NIC), Ahmed Abubakar as a defendant.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu, through his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, had filed a writ of summons marked: FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/1702\/222.<\/p>\n<p>The application, dated and filed on Sept. 23, listed Abubakar Malami and Ahmed Rufai Abubakar as 1st and 2nd defendants respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Ejimakor sought \u201ca declaration that the defendants\u2019 arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff (Kanu) at a location in Kenya and the subsequent imprisonment of the paintiff in the aircraft that conveyed him from Kenya to Nigeria amounted to false arrest and false imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAn order of this honourable court directing the defendants to, jointly and severally, pay to the plaintiff the sum of N20,000,000,000.00 (Twenty Billion Naira only) being general and exemplary damages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn order of this honourable court directing the defendants to separately write and deliver to the plaintiff, an unreserved personal letter of apology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He prayed that the letters of apology shall be prominently and boldly published full-page in two Nigerian newspapers of national circulation.<\/p>\n<p>He also sought an order of the court, directing the defendants to pay the cost of the suit, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ekwo fixed November 18 for hearing on the suit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed Nov 18 for hearing a N20bn suit filed by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the Attorney-General&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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