Pay Mazi Nnamdi Kanu N1bn Damages Now, HURIWA Tells FG

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Wednesday, asked the Federal Government to apologise to Nnamdi Kanu and pay him the N1bn damages awarded to him by a High Court in Abia State,

National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, made this known in a statement titled, ‘Pay Mazi Nnamdi Kanu N1 Billion, Apologise Now, HURIWA Tells President Buhari’.

ABN TV had reported that the court ordered the Federal Government to pay the sum of N1bn to the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and issue a letter of apology to him.

Kanu had approached the court demanding N5bn over the invasion of his father’s house by the military on September 10, 2017.

Justice Benson Anya on Wednesday stated that the Federal Government violated Kanu’s fundamental rights through the invasion of his father’s house. The judge also recommended political solution to resolve Kanu’s detention and agitation.

Reacting, HURIWA said it “strongly endorses the decision of the Hon judge of the Abia State High Court in Umuahia which today directed the Federal Government to pay a sum of N1bn to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu”.

“HURIWA supports the order for Government to tender an apology to Nnamdi Kanu. The matter was about the invasion but we do think that the landmark judgment suffices for the illegal abduction that the Nigerian government subjected him to in Kenya,” the group added.