On Thursday, Justice A. O. Onovo of the Enugu State High Court ruled that the South-East Governors’ Forum’s proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra was unlawful, unconstitutional, and void.
Nonetheless, IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu petitioned the court to have the prescription reversed through the representation of Mr. Aloy Ejimakor.
Since IPOB was an organization “composed of citizens of Nigeria of the Igbo and other eastern Nigerian ethnic groups, professing the political opinion of self-determination,” Kanu asked the court to rule that IPOB’s proscription was unlawful.
Declaring his “arrest and consequent detention and prosecution as illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional and amounts to infringement of the applicant’s fundamental rights,” the IPOB leader begged the court.
“Self-determination is not a crime and thus cannot be used as a basis to arrest, detain and prosecute the applicant,” he pleaded with the court.
Then, pleading with the court, he asked for N8 billion in damages from the defendants “for the physical, mental, emotional, and psychological trauma he was subjected to.”
In addition, he mandated that the defendants provide him N8 billion in damages and issue a formal apology to him in newspapers.
