The Department of State Services (DSS) granted Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), access to his legal team on Monday, nearly two months after denying him of such.
The lead counsel for Kanu’s legal team, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, announced this update on Monday evening.
He stated that Kanu was granted access to his legal representatives following directives from the Director General of the DSS, Mr Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi.
Ejimakor noted that Kanu’s legal team, which had been denied access since September 27, 2024, was joined by Mr. Ndidi Awurum, a US-based attorney, stressing that the team’s visit to Kanu was facilitated by the intervention of legal expert Hon. Obi Aguocha.
“Today, on the directives of the DG DSS, the #MnkLegalTeam conducted the first successful visitation with MAZI NNAMDI KANU since September 27. Mazi Ndidi Awurum, who travelled from the US, was with us. Our rigorous legal efforts, alongside Hon. Obi Aguocha’s intervention, was crucial to this outcome.” Ejimakor shared In a post on X.
Ejimakor had previously expressed concern about the DSS’s blatant disregard for a court order regarding Kanu’s access to his legal team.
It would be recalled that Ejimakor accused the DSS of intentionally violating a court order that permitted Kanu to see his lawyers. He then pledged that all previously suspended legal actions aimed at enforcing compliance would proceed vigorously owing to DSS’s continued defiance of the court order
