Just In: Court Trashes Nnamdi Kanu’s Request For DSS DG Oral Evidence On Health Status

Federal High Court, Abuja, has trashed the request of the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, for the Director-General of the Department of States Services (DSS) to give oral evidence on his state of health, Ezenwoko’s Blog reports.

At a hearing of a suit filed by the secessionist on Wednesday, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in ruling, held that fundamental rights cases are special cases “sui generis” which mode of commencement are affidavit evidence as prescribed under Order 2, Rule 2 of the Fundamental Human Right Enforcement Procedure Rules, 2009.

He declined the Biafra agitator’s requested stating that though there were various modes of commencement of action, including fundamental right cases, the applicant (Kanu) chose to commence his “under the Fundamental Right Enforcement Procedure Rules that stipulates affidavit evidence.”

According to the judge, having carefully perused all the affidavits of the applicant and the respondents before him, he was of the view that there was no irreconcilable conflicts in the affidavits.

Justice Taiwo thereby adjourned the matter until April 13 for the hearing of the substantive application.