The Supreme Court will on December 15, deliver judgment on an appeal which is seeking to compel the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, from detention.
On October 13, 2022, the Court of Appeal in Abuja had in a judgment, ordered Kanu’s release.
However, the federal government took the case to the Supreme Court.
At the proceedings on Thursday, a five-member panel of the apex court headed by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, fixed the matter for judgment after the parties involved in the case adopted their final briefs.
While adopting his final brief, counsel for Kanu Mike Ozehkome, SAN, urged the court to order the immediate release of his client from detention and award a heavy punitive cost against the FG.
He said, “We urge my lords to uphold our Cross-Appeal to do substantial justice to this matter and to the Respondent who has been in detention since June 29, 2021, even after the lower court ordered his release and that he should never be prosecuted again on the same counts.
“They are still holding him unconstitutionally. We pray my Lords to deliver justice and use this case, just like in Ojukwu vs. State, to demonstrate that no man or government should be above the law.”