Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), filed an appeal, but the Court of Appeal in Abuja dismissed it on Friday.
The leader of IPOB is reportedly contesting alleged infringement of his fundamental rights in his appeal.
After his conviction for terrorism, a three-member panel of the appellate court rendered a decision that labeled the case as academic and without merit.
After Kanu was convicted on November 20 and sentenced to life in prison by a Federal High Court, the court determined that his allegations of violations of his rights to human dignity, good health care, and religion during his custody by the Department of State Services (DSS) were no longer actionable.
Judge Boloukuromo Moses Ugo, who delivered the lead ruling, stated that when Kanu’s attorney, Maxwell Opara, acknowledged throughout the proceedings that his client was being incarcerated in Sokoto jail, the appeal’s content became irrelevant.
In the lead opinion, Justice Moses Ugo ruled that as Kanu had already been remanded in the institution of his choice, the court could no longer approve his request to be moved to Kuje prison.
The appeal contested a July 3 decision made by Justice Taiwo Taiwo (now retired) of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which had rejected Kanu’s lawsuit to enforce fundamental rights because he had not proven his case.
The Director General of the DSS, the DSS, and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) were the parties to the appeal.
Remember that Justice James Omotosho found Nnamdi Kanu guilty on all seven counts of terrorist charges against him and sentenced him to life in prison.
When delivering the verdict, Justice Omotosho emphasized that “the convict has not acted well throughout the proceedings” and that he had unnecessarily delayed the proceedings.
