Aggrieved Nnamdi Kanu Drags FG to ECOWAS, Slams $800m Suit

Radio Biafra founder, Nnamdi Kanu has slammed an $800 million law suit against the Federal Government before the ECOWAS Court. The detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has slammed an $800 million Dollars suit against the federal government at the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS court in Abuja over what he termed a gross violation of his human rights.

The suit was filed on his behalf on March 2, 2016 by his legal  counsel, Hon. Ifeanyi Ejiofor and Chinwe C. Umeche (Miss) from Ugochinyere Law Chambers, Abuja.

Kanu is asking the ECOWAS court to declare his arrest and detention since October 14, 2015, torture and his incarceration in the defendants detention centre in flagrant disobedience to several Orders of Court of competent jurisdiction directing his unconditional release, is unlawful, as it constitutes serious breaches of Nigerian’s human rights obligations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and other International Human Rights Treaties to which Nigeria is a State party.

Kanu also wants a compensation of $800 million for the ordeal he suffered in the hands of Nigerian government.

The Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF and Minister of Justice, as well as the Director-General of State Security Services, SSS are all joined in the suit before the ECOWAS court.