The Court of Appeal on Wednesday fixed March 7, 2023, to hear an application filed by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

Mr Kanu is seeking to be joined in the appeal challenging the group’s proscription by the federal government.

The IPOB leader, on September 5, 2022, filed the joinder application as an interested party on January 18, 2018, the judgement of the Federal High Court in suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/871/2017, that proscribed IPOB.

Although a hearing in the application was scheduled for Wednesday, the appellate court did not sit, and the matter was fixed until March 7, 2023.

Lead counsel for Mr Kanu, Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume, who filed the processes, said his client was appealing the trial court’s judgement, which was rendered without hearing from him.

Mr Kanu, who expressed dissatisfaction with the judgement, has proposed challenging it on appeal.

In his proposed grounds of appeal, he contended that the trial judge erred in law when he ruled that “The Attorney-General in his application ex parte exhibited documents showing the existence of a threat to national security by the Respondent/Applicant and I accordingly made the order.

“By the order of 20th September 2017 prescribing the Respondent/Applicant organisation am of the firm view that the right of the Applicant to private and family life freedom of expression, right to peaceful assembly and freedom of movement have not been infringed upon.

“I also hold that the Applicant’s right to a fair hearing has not been violated by the grant on the Exparte order.”

On this ground, Mr Ume argued that the ex parte order of proscription of the appellant and its listing as a terrorist group violated the applicant’s constitutional right to a fair hearing.

When the second respondent, consequent upon the said order declaring and proscribing the appellant as a terrorist group, arrested, detained, and is currently prosecuting the applicant on charges of terrorism and as a member/leader of the appellant on six (6) count charges solely predicated on the said order pending on appeal.

Charging the applicant with the offences enumerated above, which are wholly predicated on the said ex parte order, and upon which the applicant was not on notice, violated the applicant’s constitutional rights.

This includes, particularly, his right to a fair hearing.

In addition, he stated that the trial court misdirected itself in law and thus occasioned a grave miscarriage of justice that has adversely affected the applicant.

https://gazettengr.com/ipob-proscription-appeal-court-to-hear-nnamdi-kanus-application-march-7/

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I don’t know why they are wasting scarce resources on Nnamdi Kanu’s case.

They should just sentence him to death by firing squad and finish all this nonsense case.

How can a terrorist be enjoying VIP treatment and wearing Fendi? Buhari is too dull for me. God bless General Sani Abacha the badt guy.

Tunder , No let me complete am O

LegendHero:
I don’t know why they are wasting scarce resources on Nnamdi Kanu’s case.

They should just sentence him to death by firing squad and finish all this nonsense case.

How can a terrorist be enjoying VIP treatment and wearing Fendi? Buhari is too dull for me. God bless General Sani Abacha the badt guy.

March 7 by then INEC would have proclaimed Tinubu the next President to oversee the prosecution of Kanu and his Ipob terrorist unit.

FG will win
The evidences against the appellants and basis FG used to proscribe the terrorist group are very compelling.

A judgement in favour of FG is justice for the victims of his violent rhetorics.

LegendHero:
I don’t know why they are wasting scarce resources on Nnamdi Kanu’s case.

They should just sentence him to death by firing squad and finish all this nonsense case.

How can a terrorist be enjoying VIP treatment and wearing Fendi? Buhari is too dull for me. God bless General Sani Abacha the badt guy.

He has been in DSS custody for 15 months and the security situation only gotten worse, but you think him facing firing squad will achieve what? It will only make things far much worse than it is now and cause many more Nnamdi Kanu's to rise up

Nigerians rarely think about what will bring peace, only about what will bring violence

He brought death to igbo land
But the igbos after smoking igbo would still zombify to lick is ass, including their chief priest Ekuku

IPOB is the only group that I have ever heard off, was unarmed and touched nobody as at September 2017 when it was declared a terrorist group the government

Thankfully, civilised countries where the rule of law and common sense still work, such as the USA and The EU, all denounced the declaration of IPOB as a terrorist group

LegendHero:
I don’t know why they are wasting scarce resources on Nnamdi Kanu’s case.

They should just sentence him to death by firing squad and finish all this nonsense case.

How can a terrorist be enjoying VIP treatment and wearing Fendi? Buhari is too dull for me. God bless General Sani Abacha the badt guy.

If only your father knew you will be this useless he would have use double condom on that faithful day.

He will be granted bail after the election next year.

Until then, let him continue with his watery beans.

gidgiddy:


He has been in DSS custody for 15 months and tye security situation only got worse, but you think him facing firing squad will achieve what? It will only make things far much worse than it is now and cause many more Nnamdi Kanu's to rise up

Nigerians rarely think about what will bring peace, only about what will bring violence

Kanu told ibo elders he would go to Abuja, and when he returned Buhari's decapitated head will be brought back as gift.

Buhari should decapitate the brastard and gift his head to alaibo to put in biafran museum.

ImperialYoruba:


Kanu told ibo elders he would go to Abuja, and when he returned Buhari's decapitated head will be brought back as gift.

Buhari should decapitate the brastard and gift his head to alaibo to put in biafran museum.

Oh he said that? With Boko haram, JSWAP, killer herdsmen and bandits all armed and killing people daily, Nigerias security situation has long passed 'what was said'