Court orders immediate release of IPOB member, awards him the Sum of ₦5 million

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Gudu District of Abuja on Thursday ordered the Inspector-General of Police and its Intelligence Response Team to immediately and unconditionally release a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Jude Obasi. (Read More Here).

While asking the IGP and the IRT to immediately tender an unreserved apology in two national Newspapers to Obasi, Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi consequently awarded the sum of N5 million as reparation for the gross violation of the fundamental Rights of Obasi.

The court gave the judgment in a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by his team of lawyers led by Ifeanyi Ejiofor.