A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja
has ordered the unconditional release of detained leader of the Islamic
Movement of Nigeria, Sheik Ibrahim El Zakyzaky, within 45 days from this
Friday.
The court also awarded N25m damages each in favour of Zakyzaky and his wife against the Federal Government.
Trial judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole,
in a judgement delivered on the suit filed by Mr Femi Falana, SAN, for
the enforcement of the rights of Zakyzaky and his wife, declared the
continued detention of the Shiites leader as unconstitutional.
The Shiite leader had been in detention since December 2015.
The judge also ordered the FG to build a
decent accommodation that the applicant and his family would settle
into at the expiration of the 45 days to their release.
The accommodation should be anywhere in Kaduna or within the north where the IMN has its abode.
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