The Nigerian government said it won't release the IPOB leader, despite a court judgment which ordered his release.
It held that the IPOB leader was “extra-ordinarily renditioned” to Nigeria and that the action was a flagrant violation of the country’s extradition treaty and also a breach of his fundamental human rights.
“The Federal Government will consider all available options open to us on judgment on rendition while pursuing determination of pre-rendition issues,” Mr Malami said. “If the federal government refuses or stalls on releasing Kanu solely because it desires to levy further or new charges, it will amount to a burgeoning holding charge which is impermissible in our jurisprudence,” he said.
He said the judgment of the Court of Appeal has “grandfathered a continuing lack of prosecutorial jurisdiction that will, in the interim, be very hard to overcome.”, stating that the government must release Mr Kanu, even if it decides to appeal the court ruling discharging and acquitting him.
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