October 27, (THEWILL) – The presiding judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice Inyang Ekwo, has fixed November 18, 2022, for hearing in a N20bn suit filed by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN) and Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.
THEWILL reports that Kanu, through his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, had filed a writ of summons marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1702/222.
The application, dated and filed on Sept. 23, listed Malami and Abubakar as 1st and 2nd defendants respectively.
Ejimakor sought “a declaration that the plaintiff, Kanu’s arrest and imprisonment 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 the 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 from the court, directing the defendants to pay the cost of the suit, among others.