Vanguard
By Steve Oko
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB; and its Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, have engaged the services of Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume, SAN, to step up on their 2018 appeal, seeking the reversal of proscription of IPOB and the terrorist tag by the Federal Government.
When the proscription was made Ex Parte in October 2017, the IPOB had approached the Court of Appeal insisting that the trial court was in error and praying that the lower court’s orders exparte be set aside.
The IPOB had framed five grounds which included that the activities of IPOB were not within the definition of terrorism acts as enshrined in Section 2 (1)(a)(b) & (c) of the Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Act 2013, to warrant such proscription.
However, just recently, SAN Machukwu-Ume, was engaged based on the need for amendments of the existing grounds of arguments to help in a just and favorable determination of the pending appeal.
Machukwu-Umeh is leadning a team of several lawyers that include IPOB’s senior principal lawyers, Aloy Ejimakor and Ifeanyi Ejiofor…
