Court rules out Nnamdi Kanu’s N20bn suit against Malami, NIA DG

An Abuja Federal High Court on Friday, ruled out a N20 billion law suit initiated by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against Abubakar Malami, SAN, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF).

The Informant247 learnt that the IPOB leader, through his legal practitioner, Aloy Ejimakor, had dragged Malami and Ahmed Abubakar, the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to court as 1st and 2nd defendants respectively.

Justice Inyang Ekwo who presided over the matter however, ruled out the law suit after I.C. Nworgu, who stood in for the IPOB leader, informed the court that the plaintiff had agreed to withdraw the suit.

Nworgu also said the notice of withdrawal of the case had already been filed.

The application, with the mark: FHC/ABJ/CS/1702/2022, has been filed in line with Order 50, Rules 2(1) of the FHC Civil Procedure Rules, 2019.

The Informant247 also learnt that Justice Ekwo had, on October 27, scheduled Friday for hearing.

The application, which dated and filed on September 23, had revealed “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 persuaded that the letters of apology shall be published full-page on the pages of two Nigerian newspapers of national recognitions.

He also requested an order of the court, ordering the defendants to make a payment of the cost of the suit, among others.