One of the supporters of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu IPOB leader, Mazi Solomon Onyegbule, has been ordered by Justice Z.B. Abubakar of the Federal High Court to be released.
The court also awarded fifty million naira as “compensatory and exemplary damages.”
According to Punch News Paper, the lawyer to Kanu and IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said this in a statement he issued on Tuesday evening.
He said that the court had ordered in a suit judgement No: FHC/ABJ/CS/137/2022 that the Inspector-General of Police should release Mazi Onyegbule from their custody.
Solomon Onyegbule was awarded the sum of fifty million naira by the court as compensatory and exemplary damages.
The court ordered the Inspector General of Police to make a public apology to Mazi Solomon in one national newspaper.
We will do everything within our power to make sure that Umuchineke is released and compensated for their unlawful arrests and detentions.
The visit of Ejiofor to Kanu was held in the custody of the Department of State Services.
He said that “we went to Onyendu to give him the latest information on the pending actions on the appeal filed by the Federal Government of Nigeria at the Supreme Court, against the Judgment of the Court of Appeal.”
The Federal Government abandoned the appeal due to their deliberate refusal to file any court process in prosecuting the appeal, which they initiated against the judgment of the Court of Appeal.
The expeditious hearing of this appeal will determine the release/freedom of Onyendu and will leave the criminal elements with no other option than to leave our land.
Foreign Governments and institutions should prevail on the judiciary to assign a date for the hearing of his appeal.
He did not rule out the possibility of pressure from those who have been decimated in their own court, but he insisted that justice must be done and seen to be done in his case.
When it comes to giving equal attention to the assignment of date in hearing of our appeal at the apex court, Onyendu cited the instance where the Court was expeditious in granting an Order staying the execution of his judgment given by the same court.
He expressed confidence in the ability of his legal team, led by the man of letters, and the ability to beat the Federal Government of Nigeria to their own game.
Onyendu appreciated millions of his followers for not letting him down, particularly on his directive that the purported sit-at- home order, ordered by the known enemies of our land, was never obeyed.
The criminals who are being funded by the enemies of his peaceful movement should be fished out from their hideouts.
The soulless beings should discreetly smoke out from their various hideouts.
Onyendu condemned the killings and destructions carried out by the criminal elements.
This servant of his people ingests over ten tablets of drugs every day, which drugs rarely come through as and when needed.
Sometimes the DSS ignores his request and abandons him for days before coming back to him with the medication.
It is incomprehensible that these soulless beings who claim to be acting in his interest could roundly disregard and/or ignore Onyendu’s advice; which situation calls for in-depth scrutiny of these soulless beings with a view to determining whether Igbo blood actually exists.
“Onyendu is profoundly grateful for your uncommon solidarity, love and loyalty, even as he continues to urge you all to remain law abiding as you have always demonstrated.”
