JUST IN: Appeal Court acquits, discharges Nnamdi Kanu

The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has discharged the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“Appeal allowed, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi KANU, discharged and acquitted.

“We have won!

“Victory, victory, victory, victory,” an excited Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Kanu’s lawyer, posted on his Facebook page, Thursday evening.

Kanu is being prosecuted by the Federal Government at the Federal High Court in Abuja, on a 15-count charge, bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism, offences he allegedly committed in the course of his separatist campaigns.

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A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal said the Federal High Court lacks the jurisdiction to try him in view of his abduction and extraordinary rendition to Nigeria in flagrant violation of the OAU convention and protocol on extradition.

The court held that the 15-count charge preferred against Kanu did not disclose the place, date, time and nature of the alleged offences before being unlawfully extradited to Nigeria in clear violation of international treaties.

The court further held that the Federal Government failed to disclose where Nnamdi Kanu was arrested despite the grave allegations against him.