Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu has filed an appeal before the Appellate Court in Abuja over the amended seven charges of terrorism which Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja granted.
Mr Kanu had argued before the court that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the charges filed by the Federal Government because he was “unlawfully, brutally and extraordinarily renditioned from Kenya without his consent.”
His lawyer Mike Ozekhome noted that since some of the allegations leveled against Kanu were purportedly committed outside the country, the court, therefore, lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the charge.
“The charges appears to give this court a global jurisdiction over offences that were allegedly committed by the defendant, without specifying the location or date the said offences were committed,” he had said.
But Justice Nyako, however, struck out eight of the charges and left seven.
Justice Nyako struck out counts 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12,13 and 14 of the charge, she okayed Kanu’s trial on counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 15.
However, in the suit at the Court of Appeal in Abuja which was obtained by reporters on Monday, Kanu urged the court to quash the entire charges.
He said Justice Nyako erred in law by failing to “consider, make finding of facts and accordingly pronounce on issue one raised for the trial court’s determination, relating to the extraordinary rendition of the appellant, and thereby occasioned a miscarriage of justice.”
