Nnamdi Kanu’s household argued in court docket that he was a sufferer of extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021.

Jailed Biafran separatist chief Nnamdi Kanu’s household misplaced a authorized problem in opposition to the British authorities in a London court docket concerning his detention in Nigeria.

Kanu’s brother Kingsley Kanu had introduced a judicial evaluation in opposition to Britain’s International Workplace over its alleged refusal to acknowledge that Nnamdi Kanu, who holds Nigerian and British citizenship, was the sufferer of extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021.

Kingsley Kanu’s attorneys argued that the International Workplace ought to attain a judgement about whether or not his brother was the sufferer of extraordinary rendition so it may correctly assess tips on how to help the household.

Decide Jonathan Swift dismissed the case on Thursday, saying the International Workplace’s choice to not specific a agency view about Nnamdi Kanu’s therapy, both privately or publicly, was a matter for the federal government.

Nonetheless, the choose added that the British authorities’s strategy can even now be told by a ruling from Nigeria’s Court docket of Enchantment on October 13 that discovered that Nnamdi Kanu had been unlawfully kidnapped and despatched to Nigeria.

Nigeria’s Court docket of Enchantment additionally dropped seven costs in opposition to Nnamdi Kanu, who stays in detention pending an attraction in opposition to that call by the Nigerian authorities.

Britain’s International Workplace and Kingsley Kanu’s attorneys didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Nnamdi Kanu based the Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB) to press for the secession of the Igbo ethnic group’s homeland, which covers a part of southeastern Nigeria.

Authorities view IPOB as a “terrorist” group and banned it in 2017. IPOB says it needs to attain independence by way of non-violent means. It has authorised sit-at-home orders on Mondays since July 2021, which have crippled small companies within the area.

A splinter faction established a paramilitary wing, the Jap Safety Community, which has been accused of human rights violations, abductions and violent assaults on places of work of Nigeria’s electoral fee.

The area tried to secede from Nigeria in 1967 beneath the identify of the Republic of Biafra, triggering a three-year civil battle wherein greater than one million individuals died, largely from hunger.