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The Nigerian government has again indicated that it is not yet ready to release Nnamdi Kanu, over 24 hours after the Court of Appeal in Abuja freed him.
Mr Kanu, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United Kingdom, has been detained by the State Security Service over terrorism charges filed against him since he was arrested in Kenya and brought back to Nigeria in June last year. "So, the government is considering the appropriate action to be taken on the matter and Nigerians will be notified of the position that will finally be taken on the matter in due course," Mr Dingyadi said.The"discharged-but-not-acquitted" line is seen by lawyers as a fuzzy basis for the government's attempt to continue to hold Mr Kanu in custody against the Court of Appeal's clear order for his release.
Mr Kanu, displeased with the partial dismissal of the charges against him by the Federal High Court in April, had approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja to challenge the validity of the remaining seven charges. It held there was no denial by the Nigerian government's lawyer, David Kaswe, in the appeal as to the submissions of Mike Ozekhome, Mr Kanu's counsel, that the separatist leader was"extraordinarily renditioned from Kenya."
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