The Court of Appeal, Abuja has discharged and acquitted the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Kanu has been in federal custody on 15-count charge bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism leveled against him by the Federal Government.
Sitting on the case on Thursday, a three-man panel of the Appeallate Court ruled that the Federal High Court lacks the jurisdiction to try the Kanu on the grounds of his abduction and extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria.
This, the panel said is in flagrant violation of the OAU convention and protocol on extradition.
The court said that the 15-count charge did not disclose in details the alleged offences against Kanu before being unlawfully extradited to Nigeria neither did the federal government disclose where the accused was arrested.
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