IPOB Commends Court Verdict On Ejiofor, Questions Kanu’s Continued Detention

IPOB Commends Court Verdict On Ejiofor, Questions Kanu’s Continued Detention

The Indigenous People of Biafra has hailed the recent court judgment delivered in favor of its counsel, Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor.

Ejiofor who is currently the lawyer of to the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu had filed a suit with No: FHC/AWK/CS/56/2021 in which he dragged the Federal Government for abusing his fundamental rights.

According to him, the Federal Government had, through its security personnel on June 6, 2021, invaded his ancestral home in Oraifite, Anambra State, during which his aid was killed.

Justice Hyeladzira Nganjiwa in its judgment on Friday, awarded N102million compensatory damages in favor of Ejiofor for gross violation of his fundamental rights and cost of litigation.

The court also awarded him N5million being the cost of his Toyota Camry car which was burnt by security agencies.

IPOB also commended the judges for giving justice to all IPOB cases littered in all courts in Nigeria.

In a statement on Monday, the IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, hailed the judiciary for not yielding to the “oppressive” tendencies of the Federal Government in delivering justice for IPOB members.

Powerful said the only “crime” Ejiofor committed was being a defence lawyer to the IPOB and Kanu.

He however noted that just like Ejiofor, every other IPOB member has always been harassed, intimidated and threatened and at worst, some losing their lives and properties worth millions, alluding that the Attorney-General of the Federation, Alhaji Abubakar Mallami, and Justice Binta Nyako, are collaborating with the Federal Government to victimize IPOB members, and questioned the motive of the Federal government to still keep its leader in detention till date.

The statement read in part, “We commend the recent judgment delivered in favour of the IPOB counsel, Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, whom the Federal Government and its compromised security agencies attacked and murdered his personal assistance, abducted others and burnt his personal car and country home at the Oraifite Ekwusigo LGA of Anambra State.

“We commend the Judge who, without minding the intimidation, delivered a landmark judgment against the Federal Government and her compromised security agencies and ordered them to compensate him for the evil they did to him.

“IPOB will not forget to appreciate Justice Ademola of Abuja High Court who gave justice to our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in 2015 that he committed no crime against any man or nation. This honourable Judge granted unconditional release of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in 2015, which unmasked the injustice that the current Judge, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, is trying so hard to mask again against Nnamdi Kanu.

“The Attorney-General of Nigeria, Alhaji Mallami and Justice Binta Nyako, in collaboration with the Fulani-controlled Federal Government, have not come out openly to tell the world the crime of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu that made them kidnap him from Kenya, extraordinarily renditioned to Nigeria and still kept him in the DSS Solidarity confinement till date.