The legal team of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has vowed to visit the Biafra agitator despite restrictions by the Department of State Services, DSS.
Kanu’s lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor warned that the DSS would get into trouble with the Abuja Federal High Court if it insists on the restriction.
DSS had restricted Kanu from his legal team following the uproar at the Federal High Court in Abuja where he demanded the recusal of Justice Binta Nyako.
But, the court had threatened to jail DSS Director General Adeola Ajayi over the secret police’s restriction on Kanu’s lawyers.
However, speaking on Arise TV, Ejimakor said: “The threat already has an impact because I did get some fillers, and I’m aware of the intervention of Obi Agwoucha and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas. They intervened politically on this matter and tried to resolve it by way of compromise, so I had informal information that DSS has retraced its steps and is now willing to do the right thing.
“I should bring a letter with the names of the counsels that would visit Kanu on Monday, so I have done that and we will go there hoping that the restrictions would be lifted. If they are lifted we will go and interface with our client and if the restriction is not lifted the process in court will continue to its logical conclusion.
“He is entitled to access to his counsels under section 36 of the Nigerian constitution, Kanu is not supposed to be detained at the DSS in the first place – it’s a glorified holding cell – he is supposed to be detained in prison where these restrictions normally don’t occur.
”DSS is a security environment with security built in place that they take for granted.
These restrictions don’t go well for detainees. We are not forcing them to break their backs or change their system overnight but if you insist on detaining him where he shouldn’t be, then make certain adjustments. If you don’t, you are going to get into trouble with the court that made the order.”
Peoplesmind
