Nigeria: Obey Human Rights Law in Kanu, Ighobo's Cases, Falana Urges Govt

2 August 2021

Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has warned the federal government to respect the rule of law and international human rights law in handling the cases of secessionists, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho.

Falana, who disclosed this yesterday at the Geneva Refugee Convention Symposium to mark it 70 years of existence organised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lagos, noted Kenya and Nigeria have an extradition treaty, adding that what would have been done was to go court and bring back the individual, "of course that was going to be done in the case of Ighoho."

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