The Community Court of the Economic Community of
West African States (ECOWAS) sitting in Abuja has been urged by the Federal
Government to dismiss a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by the
leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
It stated that Kanu having been granted bail and
allegedly escaped from his ongoing trial before the Federal High Court in
Abuja, the judgment of the ECOWAS Court on the suit would serve no purpose.
Kanu had filed the suit on March 3, 2016 demanding
$800m as compensation from the Federal Government for his alleged unlawful
arrest in 2015 and continued detention.
But the lawyer representing the Federal Government,
Mrs. Maimuna Shiru, stated in an
objection to the suit that Kanu having been
granted bail by the Federal High Court in Abuja where he is being tried
alongside others on charges of treasonable felony, on April 25, 2017, it was
unnecessary for the ECOWAS Court to adjudicate on the IPOB leader’s suit.
She also noted that Kanu having allegedly jumped the
bail granted him by the Federal High Court, Abuja, event had overtaken the
suit.
The three grounds of the application stated, “Having
regards to Article 88(2) of the Rules of the Community Court of Justice,
ECOWAS, this suit has become devoid of purpose and unnecessary to adjudicate
upon.
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