SAVE THIS ARTICLE AS PDF TO READ DEEPER.Details of why the State Security Service (SSS) has not allowed lawyers access to Nnamdi Kanu have emerged.
On 17 October, the court threatened to jail the Director-General of the SSS, Adeola Ajayi, if he continued to deny lawyers access to the IPOB leader.The summons followed a petition by Mr Kanu’s legal team claiming that some armed SSS operatives barricaded two of their members from accessing the IPOB leader on Wednesday.
The legal team claimed that the operatives were acting on the “instructions and orders” of the SSS director-general.
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.The summon, followed a petition by Mr Kanu’s legal team that some armed SSS operatives, on Wednesday, barricaded two of their members from accessing the IPOB leader.
The legal team claimed that the operatives were acting on the “instructions and orders” of the SSS director-general.
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.
