Outlawed Igbo separatist group, the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), has filed a fresh motion for injunction challenging a recent ruling by the Court of Appeal judgment that upheld an earlier ruling that had designated the group as a terrorist organisation.
The Appeal Court had, in a judgment delivered by Hama Akawu Barka, O. E. Abang and O. O. Oyewunmi, JICA in Appeal No. CA/ABJ/214/2018 on January 30, 2025, upheld the proscription of IPOB as a terrorist organization by the Nigerian government.
However, the motion which was filed on Thursday by Aloy Ejimakor, Lead Counsel to detained leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, stated that the aim was to checkmate the imminent danger of deploying the judgment as a cover to unleash extrajudicial killings in the South-East region.
