The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, is being sued for $20 billion by the leader of the illegal Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. A Federal High Court in Abuja has set November 18 for the case’s hearing.
The case’s hearing date was set by Justice Inyang Ekwo. Ahmed Abubakar, the director-general of the National Intelligence Agency, is also a defendant.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Kanu filed a summons with the following markings: FHC/ABJ/CS/1702/222 through the assistance of his attorney, Aloy Ejimakor.
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Abubakar Malami and Ahmed Abubakar were designated as the first and second defendants in the application, which was dated and submitted on September 23.
Ejimakor sought “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.
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“An order of this honourable court directing the defendants to separately write and deliver to the plaintiff, an unreserved personal letter of apology.”
He called for the full-page publication of the letters of apologies in two widely read newspapers in Nigeria in prominent and assertive fashion.
In addition, he asked the court to issue an order ordering the defendants to pay the lawsuit’s expenses among other things.
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