The State Safety Service (SSS) has once more denied attorneys entry to Nnamdi Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, his particular counsel, stated on Friday.
Mr Kanu, going through terrorism costs on the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja, is the chief of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB).
The IPOB chief has been in detention since he was repatriated to Nigeria from Kenya in June 2021 below controversial circumstances.
His authorized crew has repeatedly accused the SSS of denying them entry to Mr Kanu.
In the meantime, the decide, Binta Nyako, on 20 Could this yr, ordered the SSS to permit Mr Kanu to obtain guests for 3 days every week – Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
PREMIUM TIMES reported that the courtroom threatened to jail Adeola Ajayi, the SSS director-general, if he continued to disclaim attorneys entry to the IPOB chief in violation of the courtroom order.
Final week, the courtroom summoned the SSS director-general to “present trigger” and defend himself over his alleged refusal to permit attorneys entry to the IPOB chief or be jailed.
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On 24 October, the Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, and a member of the Home from Abia State, Obi Aguocha, visited Mr Kanu on the SSS facility over the denial of his lawyer’s entry to him.
Thereafter, Mr Ejimakor, throughout a TV programme on Sunday, stated Messrs Tajudeen and Aguocha had resolved the difficulty of entry denial via a “political compromise.”
‘We’ll proceed our suspended authorized motion’
Nevertheless, Mr Ejimakor, in a publish on his X deal with on Friday afternoon, stated the SSS has once more denied attorneys entry to Mr Kanu.
“Right now, in a blatant and persevering with disobedience of extant courtroom order, the DSS barred the authorized crew of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from conducting a visitation with him,” the lawyer stated.
“For that reason, all suspended authorized actions to implement compliance will proceed apace and with a lot vigour,” he added, suggesting that the authorized crew had earlier suspended motion in opposition to the SSS.
It isn’t clear if the attorneys suspended the authorized motion in opposition to the SSS due to Messrs Tajudeen and Aguocha’s intervention on Thursday.
Why SSS is denying attorneys entry to Nnamdi Kanu
In the meantime, prime officers of the SSS, final week, advised PREMIUM TIMES that attorneys have been being denied entry to Mr Kanu as a result of the courtroom trial is at present on maintain following the preliminary withdrawal of Justice Binta Nyako from dealing with the case.
Background
Mr Kanu’s authorized crew has repeatedly accused SSS of denying them entry to him.
The authorized crew, as an illustration, accused the key of blocking them from visiting the IPOB chief final Monday.
On 27 September, the attorneys made the same allegation in opposition to the SSS.
Earlier than then, the SSS allegedly prevented some attorneys from seeing the IPOB chief in 2021.
The incident reoccurred in 2022, a couple of yr later.
Mr Kanu was first arrested in 2015 below the administration of former Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari.
The Courtroom of Attraction, Abuja, on 13 October 2022, held that the IPOB chief was terribly renditioned to Nigeria and that the motion was a flagrant violation of the nation’s extradition treaty and likewise a breach of his basic human rights.
The courtroom, subsequently, struck out the terrorism costs filed in opposition to Mr Kanu by the Nigerian authorities and ordered his launch from the power of the SSS.
However the authorities refused to launch the IPOB chief, insisting that he (Kanu) could possibly be unavailable in subsequent courtroom proceedings if launched and that his launch would trigger insecurity within the South-east, the place he comes from.
The federal government, via the workplace of the Lawyer-Basic of the Federation, later appealed the courtroom ruling and subsequently obtained an order staying the execution of the courtroom judgement on the Supreme Courtroom.
Delivering judgement on the enchantment on 15 December 2023, the Supreme Courtroom reversed the acquittal granted to Mr Kanu by the decrease courtroom and consequently ordered the continuation of his trial on the Federal Excessive Courtroom Abuja.
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