Nnamdi Kanu’s Special Counsel, Barr Aloy Ejimakor, Monday, said the Department of State Services has isolated his client from his visitors.
Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, is being tried over alleged terrorism. He has been detained at the custody of the DSS since 2021 after being renditioned from Kenya to Nigeria.
Ejimakor’s claim is contained in a statement he sent to THE WHISTLER.
He wrote, “Today, 14th October 2024, in violation of subsisting orders of court, the State Security Services (DSS or SSS) blocked the legal team of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from seeing him when we went to its headquarters in Abuja on a routine visitation to Mazi Kanu, pursuant to court-ordered visitation regimen.”
He alleged that the DSS has not allowed any visitors to see Mazi Nnamdi Kanu since his last court appearance on 24th September 2024 when Mazi Kanu had demanded the recusal of Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako from his case.
Quoting him, “It is now becoming increasingly clear that this latest unconstitutionality emanating from the DSS has a direct nexus to Mazi Kanu’s successful recusal of Justice Nyako, even as the recusal was subsequently vacated by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
“We wish to go on the record to recall that in the recent past when the DSS had also violated terms of the court-ordered visitations, we levied applications before the Federal High Court to enforce its compliance but the applications have, to this day, not been scheduled for hearing.
“This anomaly leaves the uncanny impression that the DSS is above the law or even above the Constitution and the courts”
He told the DSS to “know that one of the reasons for the court-ordered visitations is for Mazi Kanu’s relatives and lawyers to occasionally interact with him and have proof of his life and wellbeing”.
He demanded to know what the DSS is hiding by totally “totally blocking all access to Mazi Kanu”.