A lawyer, Christopher Chidera, has said the Supreme Court of Nigeria erred in ordering the continuation of the trial of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, after his discharge and acquital by the Court of Appeal.
Chidera, a member of the Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Global Legal Consortium, made the assertion in a petition addressed to the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and the International Bar Association, IBA. He urged the NBA and the IBA to ask the Supreme Court to explain the laws on which it relied on to restore counts in the charge against Kanu that were quashed by the Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal had in an October 13, 2022, judgment, declared Kanu’s arrest in Kenya illegal and discharged and acquited him.
However, on December 15, 2023, in a suit numbered SC/CR/1361/2022, the Supreme Court set aside the Court of Appeal judgment and ordered the continuation of Kanu’s trial, remitting the case to the Abuja Federal High Court.
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