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
