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Shi’ites Ask Court to Quash Proscription Order

Pat Stevens/

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), otherwise known as Shi’ites, has filed a suit challenging the ex parte proscription order issued against it by a Federal High Court in Abuja.

The group filed the motion on notice before Justice Nkeonye Maha of the Federal High Court in Abuja, today.

Justice Maha had issued the proscription order and designated IMN a terrorist group in a ruling he delivered on July 26.

The group, in the application filed on its behalf by Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), alleged that the order was made without jurisdiction.

It contended that the court lacked the jurisdiction to issue the ex parte order against‎ a non-juristic body like IMN which is not a registered entity.

It further alleged that the order breached the fundamental right of all its members to fair hearing, guaranteed by section 36 of the Nigerian Constitution.

It also alleged that the ex parte order violated its members right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.

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