BREAKING: Appeal Court Stops Nnamdi Kanu’s Release

By Gideon Njoku

The Federal Government has succeeded in its appeal against the implementation of the judgment of the Court of Appeal, two weeks ago, which condemned the extraordinary rendition of the Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and discharged and acquitted him of terrorism charges.

The expectation was that, based on the judgment, the FG would release Kanu from custody.

But the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, appealed against the judgment at the Supreme Court, and also filed a stay of execution action at the Court of Appeal against the earlier judgment which set Kanu free.

On Friday, October 28, 2022, the FG had its way as the Court of Appeal stopped the execution of its earlier judgment.

Justice Haruna Tsanami who read the brief ruling upheld the appeal of the Federal Government. The Court suspended the execution of its judgment, pending the judgment in the appeal filed at the Supreme Court by the FG.

He dismissed as misleading, the counter affidavit against the FG, filed by Kanu’s legal team, led by Mike Ozekhome, SAN.

Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, as ordered by a Federal High Court, Abuja, since he was renditioned from Kenya to Nigeria in June, 2021.