Africa Business Radio

The detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has dragged the Federal Government of Nigeria to an Abia State High Court, over what he described as violations of his human rights.The Federal Government, the Nigeria Army, the Department of State Service and the Nigeria police are respondents in the suit.Kanu is seeking enforcement of his fundamental rights and wants the court to, among other things, halt his trial currently in motion at the Federal High Court in Abuja.He also asked the court to mandate the respondents to pay the sum of five billion nairas for the physical, mental, emotional, psychological, and other damages suffered as claimed by the applicant.