Last week, the court summoned the SSS director-general to defend himself over his alleged refusal to allow lawyers access to the IPOB leader.
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The IPOB leader has been in detention since he was repatriated to Nigeria from Kenya in June 2021 under controversial circumstances.Meanwhile, the judge, Binta Nyako, on 20 May this year, ordered the SSS to allow Mr Kanu to receive visitors for three days a week – Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.that the court threatened to jail Adeola Ajayi, the SSS director-general, if he continued to deny lawyers access to the IPOB leader in violation of the court order.
It is not clear if the lawyers suspended the legal action against the SSS because of Messrs Tajudeen and Aguocha’s intervention on Thursday.PREMIUM TIMES that lawyers were being denied access to Mr Kanu because the court trial is currently on hold following the initialMr Kanu was first arrested in 2015 under the administration of former Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari.
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