IPOB files N8.5 billion suit against Buhari
The Federal High Court in Abuja will on June 21 start the hearing on N8.5 billion suit the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) filed against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The group is seeking damages and compensation for dead and wounded members it claimed were “wickedly and brutally killed by combined forces of the Nigerian army, the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Nigerian Police.”
According to the plaintiff, about 153 of IPOB members were killed during a peaceful protests in Onitsha, Aba and other parts of the South-East and South-South of Nigeria late last year and early this year. It said that over 50 of them received different degrees of wounds during a peaceful protest for the release of its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu. However, the detained IPOB leader has blamed President Buhari for making comments prejudicial to his trial and the bail request he filed before the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal.
Kanu is in the custody of the State Security Service since he was arrested on October 14, 2015. READ ALSO: ‘Under Buhari Nigeria is facing its worst moment of angst since the civil war’ IPOB has also launched a formal complaint for damages and N100 million to be paid to each family of deceased IPOB members while N50 million damages is demanded for injured members of the group.
