{"id":11399,"date":"2023-12-15T10:41:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=11399"},"modified":"2023-12-15T10:41:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:41:30","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-treasonable-charge-against-nnamdi-kanu-denies-release-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/15\/supreme-court-upholds-treasonable-charge-against-nnamdi-kanu-denies-release-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Upholds Treasonable Charge Against Nnamdi Kanu, Denies Release Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a ruling delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the Supreme Court on Friday declined to order the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The judgment, written by Justice Garba Lawal, set aside the Court of Appeal&#8217;s decision from October, which had directed Kanu&#8217;s release and dismissed the terrorism charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court maintained that, despite Kanu&#8217;s alleged unlawful transfer from Kenya by the Nigerian government, such actions do not preclude the continuation of his trial. Justice Lawal highlighted the absence of any cited Nigerian law in the suit, stating that the appropriate recourse for Kanu would be to file a civil matter against the purported abduction instead of obstructing the ongoing criminal trial.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the Supreme Court ordered Kanu to defend himself against the remaining seven counts of terrorism charges. Further details on the case are expected to be revealed in due course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a ruling delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the Supreme Court on Friday declined to order the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The judgment, written by Justice Garba Lawal, set aside the Court of Appeal&#8217;s decision from October, which had directed Kanu&#8217;s release and dismissed the terrorism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11402,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions\/11402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}