Fresh details have emerged on the arrest and deportation of the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya.
Kanu’s younger brother, Kingsley, with whom he was conversing on the phone when he was arrested, says the separatist activist was into his second month in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, at the time.
Kingsley has now filed a suit in a high court in Kenya seeking a declaration that his brother’s arrest was not in order.
Kingsley is suing Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i, Director of Immigration Services Alexander Muteshi, Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss George Kinoti, the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport’s (JKIA) police boss and Attorney-General Paul Kihara Kariuki over Nnamdi’s alleged abduction and deportation.
The plaintiff, according to The Nation newspaper of Kenya, claims the IPOB leader had arrived in Kenya from Kigali, Rwanda, in May and was to spend “a few weeks” in Kenya when the country’s security forces allegedly assisted in deporting him.
Kingsley also disclosed that he had outwitted the Nigerian security agents in their bid to seize his brother’s British passport with the assistance of Nnamdi’s personal assistant.
The petition filed at the court reads, “The subject (Mr Kanu) was at no time notified that he was classified as a prohibited immigrant in Kenya.
“If he was, he would not have been granted a visa in the first instance or allowed to exit the airport on arrival.
“He would have been asked to take the next available flight out of Kenya,” Kingsley says in his petition to the court.