A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has admitted as evidence a judgment by Justice Benson Anya of the Abia State High Court on the military invasion of the residence of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in 2017.
Justice James Omotosho admitted the judgment and two others on Wednesday..
Recall that Justice Anya, delivering judgment in the fundamental rights suit filed by Kanu, had declared that the invasion of Kanu’s home in Umuahia, Abia State, in September 2017, was illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional and amounted to an infringement of his fundamental rights to life, dignity and fair hearing.
The judge subsequently ordered the Nigerian government to pay Kanu the sum of N1bn for infringing his rights as guaranteed under the 1999 Nigerian Constitution and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Justice Omotosho admitted the said judgment in evidence, as well as the certified true copies of judgments in suit FHC/UM/CS/30/2022 delivered on October 26, 2022, between Nnamdi Kanu Vs FRN and E/20/2023 between Kanu Vs FRN.
He marked the three judgments as exhibits PWL, PWM and PWN, respectively.
The judgments were tendered by the defence team during the cross-examination of the prosecution’s second witness (PW2) identified as BBB
The cross-examination was conducted by Paul Erokoro (SAN).
