The Supreme Court of Nigeria has fixed Thursday, October 5, 2023 for hearing on two separate appeals filed by the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu through his Counsels and against his continued detention.

The appeal to hear on Thursday are marked SC/CR/1394/2022, NNAMDI KANU V. FED. REP OF NIGERIA; and SC/CR/1391/2023, FED. REP OF NIG VS NNAMDI KANU, SaharaReporters learnt on Saturday.

The lead counsel of the detained Leader of the pro-Biafra group, Mike Ozekhome, confirmed the hearing date to SaharaReporters on Saturday.

Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, leads Ifeanyi Ejiofor and others in the appeal which they had formerly won at the Federal High Court and at the Court of Appeal.

SaharaReporters had reported that the Court of Appeal had in October 2022 discharged Kanu of the 15 Counts charge against him. The appellate court subsequently, barred any further arrest, detention and trial of Kanu on the existing charge before his forceful extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria by the agents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 27th of June, 2021.

The Federal Government later appealed against the judgement at the Supreme Court and subsequently got another panel of the Court of Appeal to stay the judgement of the appellate court.

Despite the judgement, Kanu has remained in solitary confinement at the facility of the Department of State Services (DSS), nearly one year after the judgement discharging him.

Confirming the hearing date, Kanu's lawyer, said: "The following appeal has been slated for hearing at the Supreme Court of Nigeria Abuja, on Thursday the 5th, October, 2023 (SC/CR/1394/2022, NNAMDI KANU V. FED.REP OF NIGERIA V; and SC/CR/1391/2023, FED. REP OF NIG VS NNAMDI KANU."

SaharaReporters had on September 18 reported that Ejiofor recalled that Kanu’s lead counsel, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), had formally requested for the Court’s approval of September 28, 2023 as the new scheduled date for the hearing of the appeal following the cancellation of the earlier scheduled date.

Ejiofor had said, “There is a positive indication that in the coming days, a confirmation or otherwise of the proposed new date will be made public upon our Lead Counsel's feedback.

“Our request is simple - let this appeal be heard with every urgency it deserves so that the fate of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who has been illegally held in the solitary confinement of the SSS will be determined, having been discharged of all the frivolous criminal charge against him since the 13th day of October, 2022.

“The Federal Government of Nigeria has continued to detain him in custody in clear violation of this subsisting Judgment, and Orders of the Court of Appeal that directed for his unconditional release, and consequently, prohibited his further trial before any Court in Nigeria or detention in any custody.

“As I have consistently maintained, the wheel of justice may grind slowly, but it will grind exceedingly fine in no distant time.”

lexylaw40kuti:
Burn down the zoooo , ki kumuyi, ki tinubu, burn down lagos, burn down the zoo. So reckless

were you not the same guy insulting OBJ on the other thread because he didn't support Tinubu

You are obviously an APC member disguising as an IPOB

How you guys sleep is a mystery

Peacemaker5128:
Supreme Court should just pass death sentence on him period

BiafraInc:
HEARING OR NO HEARING, THEY MUST RELEASE HIM, BY FIRE BY FORCE. WE ARE NOT BEGGING THOSE LOW LIVES. YOU HAVE GUNS, BIAFRANS HAVE GUNS AS WELL. BLA HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED. BELIEVE ME THE CESSPIT WILL BEG BIAFRA AND BY THEN WILL REALIZE IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE.

lamentor78:


I believe this slowpoke doesn't know what Nigerian Army has, comparing biafra guns to Nigeria Army you think is 1966

lexylaw40kuti:
Burn down the zoooo , ki kumuyi, ki tinubu, burn down lagos, burn down the zoo.look at his left hear, he is Jubril, So reckless

Biafrannuke:
He is right till tomorrow and not reckless.

Pierocash:
Asari right now!

lexylaw40kuti:
pls what's the offence of Tinubu, kumuyi, adeboye against you guys

BiafraInc:
HEARING OR NO HEARING, THEY MUST RELEASE HIM, BY FIRE BY FORCE. WE ARE NOT BEGGING THOSE LOW LIVES. YOU HAVE GUNS, BIAFRANS HAVE GUNS AS WELL. BLA HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED. BELIEVE ME THE CESSPIT WILL BEG BIAFRA AND BY THEN WILL REALIZE IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE.

AfonjaEkiti:
To be honest for once in the side if the ipob .

This guy should either be sentenced to death or sentenced to some years in prison or better still obey the Court and release the man if nothing is found.

Keeping him in detention for more than a year is illegal in any part of the world, it not as if he is in jail you just detained him.

You should have finished investigation on a detained suspect and he is to be found guilty or innocent.

It's totally wrong for more than a year .

Anyway Buhari is a bitter soul who knows nothing about law but cows .

Let's see how Tinubu works

BiafraInc:
HEARING OR NO HEARING, THEY MUST RELEASE HIM, BY FIRE BY FORCE. WE ARE NOT BEGGING THOSE LOW LIVES. YOU HAVE GUNS, BIAFRANS HAVE GUNS AS WELL. BLA HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED. BELIEVE ME THE CESSPIT WILL BEG BIAFRA AND BY THEN WILL REALIZE IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE.

RevDesm0ndJuju:



What is stopping you from breaking him free from DSS custody ?

Biafrannuke:
The same "offence" Igbo pastors of those churches "committed" that prevents them from heading parishes.

lexylaw40kuti:
but all the Catholic churches in the southwest are headed by igbos....shey we never try

BiafraInc:

MUMU, YOUR CESSPIT MUST BEG. GO AND MARK IT SOMEWHERE. THIS IS NOT THE ERA OF FLAGS AND STREET PROTESTS. YOU TERRORISTS HAVE GUNS AND BIAFRANS TOO HAVE GUNS AND SUPERIOR ONES. BRING IT ON. WHO EVER RUNS FIRST, HIS FATHER.

Peacemaker5128:
Supreme Court should just pass death sentence on him period