By Adadareporters
The director general of the Department of State Services has been issued with a notice of consequences of disobeying an order of court in regard to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The notice, contained in a Form 48, was issued by the registrar of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, is being held at the custody of the DSS since 2021 when he was renditioned from Kenya to Nigeria. He is charged with terrorism.
Barr Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu’s special counsel, had around Tuesday claimed that DSS was blocking Kanu’s visitors, including his legal team, from visiting him. A court had earlier ruled in favour of Kanu to have access to his legal team on some designated days to enable him to be well prepared to defend the charges preferred against him.
The registrar’s note read, “Take note that unless you obey the directions contained in the Order by allowing the applicant’s counsel to conduct the court-ordered visitations with the applicant on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, you will be guilty of contempt of court and will be liable to be committed to prison.”
Ejimakor, throwing more light on the implication, stated that, “This Notice is necessitated by the repeated disobedience of the court-ordered visitation of Mazi Kanu by the newly appointed Director-General of the State Security Services (Mr Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi) who has, for almost a month, not allowed Mazi Kanu’s lawyers to visit him.
“To be clear, this Notice is a quasi-criminal judicial process that forewarns any person disobeying a court order of the penal consequences of such misconduct. Therefore, if the Director-General of DSS persists on this ignoble path, he will leave us with no other option than to commence vigorous contempt proceedings against him.”
