 The appeal court sitting in Abuja has discharged the embattled leader of the prescribed indigenous people of Biafra, Aipop Namdi Kanu. Kanu is being presented, prosecuted by the federal government for a 15-count charge bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism offenses. He allegedly committed in the course of his separatist campaigns. A three-man panel of the Court of Appeals said the Federal High Court lacks 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 offenses before being unlawfully extradited to Nigeria in clear violation of international treaties. Included sections, various sections of the Extradition Act of Nigeria included section 15. They violated them. They brought Namdi Kanu to face a four-count charge that was pending, controlling and against what we call the doctrine of specialty, which is that when you bring back a fugitive through extradition process, you can only try him for that offense, for which you are extraditing that fugitive. Not earlier counts and you cannot continue with an earlier case against that fugitive. I will first meet my client, break the good news to him, then we will discuss the way forward because United Nations has already said that Namdi Kanu should be paid compensation for the violation of his human rights. We at the Court of Appeals have found today that his rights were brutally violated. The Court of Appeals was emphatic or above that. That his rights were violated. To find about fresh news updates