The Abuja Federal High Court has issued a “show cause notice” to the Director of the Department of State Services, DSS, Adeola Ajayi following the secret police’s decision not to allow Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, access to his lawyers.
The notice signed by the court’s Registrar ordered the DSS DG to show cause why he would not be imprisoned for disobeying it earlier order allowing Kanu access to his lawyers.
On October 18, the Abuja Federal High Court had warned Ajayi that he will be liable for contempt for failure to allow lawyers access to Kanu in DSS custody.
On October 23, DSS operatives reportedly disobeyed a court order by barring Kanu’s lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor and other members of the legal team from having access to the IPOB leader.
Kanu is currently detained at that DSS facility in Abuja, despite court judgments ordering his release.
However, disclosing the new notice from the court on Friday, Ejimakor insisted that the DSS DG was acting on the legal advice from its counsel, Asiwaju Adegboyega Awomolo.
