Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja had on Monday, 26th July, ordered the DSS to allow Kanu’s legal team and relatives to visit him in detention.
Notorious for disobeying court orders, the Department of State Services on Thursday barred a team of legal practitioners, led by Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra , Nnamdi Kanu from seeing him. She, however, stated that such access would not be free for all, noting that it must be regimented.
He said, “For the umpteenth time, denied us access to our client today, insisting that our request would be looked into and accordingly approved by their DG before we could be granted access to him. On the 26th day of July 2021, His Lordship, Hon. Justice Nyako of Court No.
“Attached for your ease of reference is a copy of the Court Order under reference. Details of the visit as worked out in His Lordship's Chambers by counsel on both sides and Representative of State Security Services, collectively agreed upon by everyone, is not stated in the attached order, whose details are known to all parties on the modality of the visit.
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