A British Court of Appeal has granted leave to the family of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to challenge a judgment regarding his extraordinary rendition.

Channels Television reports that Kanu has been in detention since he was brought back from Kenya on June 19, 2021.

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Following this, his brother – Kingsley Kanu – filed a suit challenging the UK ministers’ handling of the separatist leader’s case.

Kingsley had claimed that the UK authorities acted unlawfully by failing to reach a view on whether his brother had been subjected to extraordinary rendition.

He claimed that efforts to gain the release of the IPOB leader had been frustrated despite rulings by the UN and a Nigerian court.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Special Counsel to Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, said a senior British Court of Appeal judge granted the application on May 8.

“The grounds of appeal raise important issues concerning the scope of the obligations on the respondent in relation to requests for consular assistance in respect of British nationals detained abroad and the proper interpretation and application of the decision of the Court of Appeal in R(Abassi) v Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2003] UKHRR 76,” the judge was quoted to have said.

“For those reasons, there is a compelling reason for the appeal to be heard, within the meaning of CPR 52.6(1)(b). Permission is granted on all three grounds.”