Court reserves judgement in IPOB's appeal challenging proscription
The Court of Appeal Abuja has reserved judgment in an appeal filed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) challenging its proscription as a terrorist organisation by the Federal Government.
A three-man panel of the court led by Justice Hamma Barka, adjourned the matter for judgment, after the Federal Government and IPOB, through their respective lawyers, adopted their final briefs of argument.
While a counsel from the Federal Ministry of Justice, Oyilade Koleosho, announced his appearance for the government, IPOB was represented by a team of lawyers led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chukwuma-Machukwu Umeh.
The detained leader of the IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, had earlier applied to be joined as an interested party in the appeal.
The IPOB is praying the appellate court set aside in its entirety, the ruling and final decision of the late former Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Abdul Abdu-Kafarati, which on September 15, 2017, outlawed its activities in Nigeria.
The high court proscribed IPOB on the strength of an ex-parte motion that the former AGF, Abubakar Malami, filed on behalf of the Federal Government.
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