IPOB leader insists on getting $800M compensation from FG
Kanu has said that despite being granted bail, he is still entitled
to the $800m compensation for his alleged unlawful arrest and detention
in 2015.
Nnamdi Kanu,
the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, is insisting
on getting the sum of $800million from the Federal Government over his
'unlawful detention.'
In a report by Punch, Kanu, through his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor,
has said that despite being granted bail by the Federal High Court in
Abuja, he is still entitled to the $800m compensation for his alleged
unlawful arrest and detention in 2015.
Kanu
is currently being prosecuted alongside others on charges of
treasonable felony after declaring a state of Biafra in some south
eastern states of Nigeria.
Ejiofor, on behalf of Kanu,
made this known while responding to the motion filed by the Federal
Government asking the Community Court of the Economic Community of West
African States sitting in Abuja to dismiss a fundamental human rights
enforcement suit filed by the IPOB leader.
On
March 3, 2016, Kanu had filed the suit demanding $800m as compensation
from the Federal Government for his alleged unlawful arrest in 2015 and
detention.
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