By Adadareporters
The lead counsel for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Barr Aloy Ejimakor, Friday, expressed frustration following the refusal of the Department of State Services to allow Kanu’s legal team to visit him at the DSS cell.
Ejimakor stated this in a statement via his X. Quoting him, “Today, in violation of subsisting court orders and the constitution, the DSS blocked the legal team of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from meeting with him at the detention facility. It appears that the DSS has cancelled all future visitations to Kanu as a retaliation against Kanu for chasing away Justice Binta Nyako from the case and causing her embarrassment.
“What this means is that the DSS, acting on behalf of the federal government of Nigeria, has unlawfully isolated Kanu from his lawyers, thus making his solitary confinement absolute. I don’t know when next, if ever, it may be possible to see Kanu again.”
Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is being detained at the custody of the Department of State Services in Abuja. He is standing trial over terrorism-related charges.
Kanu had told Justice Binta Nyako on Tuesday that he had lost confidence in her court, thus demanded her to hands off his case. Nyako, of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had obliged Kanu’s request.
