Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu on Friday withdrew his N20 billion suit filed against the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami.
Kanu, through his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, had sued Malami and the director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Abubakar, as first and second defendants respectively.
The IPOB leader, through a lawyer I.C. Nworgu, told the Federal High Court, Abuja of his decision to withdraw the suit and Justice Inyang Ekwo struck it out.
Justice Ekwo had on October 27 fixed Friday for hearing in the suit.
The application, dated and filed on September 23, had sought “a declaration that the defendants’ arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff (Kanu) at a location in Kenya and the subsequent imprisonment of the plaintiff in the aircraft that conveyed him from Kenya to Nigeria amounted to false arrest and false imprisonment.
“A declaration of this honourable court that the defendants acted in bad faith and/or abused their public offices in falsely arresting and falsely imprisoning the plaintiff at the said location in Kenya and said aircraft.
“An order of this honourable court directing the defendants to, jointly and severally, pay to the plaintiff the sum of N20,000,000,000.00 (Twenty Billion Naira only) being general and exemplary damages.
“An order of this honourable court directing the defendants to separately write and deliver to the plaintiff, an unreserved personal letter of apology.”
He prayed that the letters of apology shall be prominently and boldly published full-page in two Nigerian newspapers of national circulation.
He also sought an order of the court, directing the defendants to pay the cost of the suit, among others.
