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Supreme Court to hear Nigerian govt’s appeal on Kanu’s acquittal today

by ebor cletus ralph jr

Today, Monday, October 24, the Supreme Court will hear an appeal against the Federal Government’s decision to drop all terrorism-related charges against Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a banned organisation.

Last Monday, the Nigerian government filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, requesting that it overturn the Appeal Court’s decision to discharge Kanu and drop all treasonable criminal charges against him.
The Federal Government claimed in a seven-ground appeal that the imprisoned IPOB leader was a “flight risk” who might leave the nation if he is released from the Directorate of State Services’ custody (DSS).

In an affidavit supporting the motion and attested to by a staff of the Department of Public Prosecution, Federal Ministry of Justice, Loveme Odubo, the government stated that “Kanu has a history of jumping bail and may be difficult to secure if the appeal was not granted.”

The Federal Government is pleading with the Supreme Court, among other things, to declare that the appellate court panel “erred in law and occasioned a miscarriage of justice” when it relied on Kanu’s rendition from Kenya to Nigeria after he violated the terms of the bail that the trial court granted him in 2017 to throw out the entirety of the charges against him.

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