An Abuja Federal High Court, has on
Thursday, January 18, in Abuja, affirmed the proscription of the Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) by dismissing the application requesting a reversal of
the an earlier court’s order proscribing it and designating it a terrorist
organisation. Justice Abdu Kafarati, the acting chief judge of the Federal High
Court who delivered the ruling on the proscribed group’s application resolved
all the three raised issues against IPOB. The Justices subsequently affirmed
that September 20, 2017 proscription order was validly issued.
Punch reports that Justice Kafarati
dismissed the contention of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the proscribed group's lawyer who
argued that IPOB not being registered in Nigeria but in other countries could
not be sued in Nigeria. In his submission, the judge likened the group to a
foreigner who could be arrested in another country where he was found to have
committed a crime.
Going further, the held that the
proscription order was in accordance with the provisions of the Terrorism
Prevention Act. He consequently awarded the sum of N500 as cost against IPOB.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that a UK court sent a Nigerian business man
Walter Wagbatsoma, to three years and six months imprisonment. The business man
was jailed for his alleged role in an international conspiracy which defrauded
the UK public services, including Lincolnshire’s mental health NHS trust, of
over £13m. 47-year old Wagbatsoma and his co-conspirators were said to have
posed as legitimate building firm which was owed money by the organisations.
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