The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has discharged the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
Kanu is being prosecuted by the Federal Government for a 15 count charge bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism, offences he allegedly committed in the course of his separatist campaigns.
A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal said the Federal High Court lacked the jurisdiction to try him in view of his abduction and extraordinary rendition to Nigeria in flagrant violation of the OAU convention and protocol on extradition.
The court held that the 15-count charge preferred against Kanu did not disclose the place, date, time and nature of the alleged offences before being unlawfully extradited to Nigeria in clear violation of international treaties.