{"id":99945,"date":"2022-10-04T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99945"},"modified":"2022-10-04T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:09:38","slug":"court-reserves-ruling-on-kanu-till-october-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/court-reserves-ruling-on-kanu-till-october-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Court reserves ruling on Kanu till October 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, and presided over by Justice Evelyn Anyadike, today reserved October 27, 2022 for ruling on Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s 8-point application over the alleged Federal Government\u2019s attack on his country home and extraordinary rendition from Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The suit is sui generis (of a special class) and it is primarily aimed at redressing the infamous unlawful expulsion or extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu, which is said to be a violation of his fundamental rights under Article 12(4) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, as well as Chapter IV of the Nigerian Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the rendition, the special counsel for Nnamdi Kanu\/IPOB, Aloy Ejimakor, is asking the court to redress the myriad violations that came with the rendition, such as the torture, the unlawful detention and the denial of the right to fair hearing which is required by law before anybody can be expelled from one country to the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am also seeking to halt his prosecution and restore him to the status quo before his rendition on 19th June, 2021\u201d, Ejimakor said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nKanu\u2019s extraordinary rendition suit was filed before the court in March this year.<\/p>\n<p>On January 19, 2022, the High Court of Abia State had decided the portion of violation of Kanu\u2019s fundamental rights that occurred in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ejimakor said, \u201cEven as I had made claims that bordered on rendition, the Court declined jurisdiction on grounds that rendition, being related to extradition, lies within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal High Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what informed my decision to initiate the suit before the Federal High Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/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 sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, and presided over by Justice Evelyn Anyadike, today reserved October 27, 2022 for ruling on Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s 8-point application over the&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":82898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99945","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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