Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lawyer for Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has responded to reports that the Biafra militant has died.
Kanu is “very much alive” in the custody of the Department of State Services, according to Ejiofor.
This was revealed during a regular visit to Kanu at the DSS custody facility in Abuja, which he gave an update on.
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The legal team, however, was unable to see the IPOB leader during the visit, according to the lawyer.
Ejiofor said the DSS senior operatives told the legal team that Kanu was protesting his earlier inability to meet with his legal representation in a statement released on Monday.
He emphasized that attempts were being made to break the deadlock.
Ejiofor revealed that he went to the DSS detention center with Mike Ozekhome, the main Counsel, and Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel.
Despite following all regulations, he claims they were made to wait for nearly an hour in the facility without any promise of seeing Kanu.
“Following the erudite Silk’s vehement complaint, we were summoned to meet with some higher officers at a meeting to which all superior personnel involved in the affair were invited.”
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We established extensive connections to determine that our client, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was ostensibly protesting the DSS’s cancellation of the prior three visits.
“All efforts made to move the visit to his very location of detention were not granted by the DSS, as they insisted that our request ran contrary to their procedure and guidelines.
“Effort is presently being intensified to pacify Onyendu to have one-on-one discussion with his legal team, to enable us brief him on legal steps we may be compelled to take and measures to be adopted to assure him that there are legal consequences for flagrant violations of court orders by the DSS.
“We are quite hopeful that this needless impasse will be resolved between now and tomorrow morning, to enable the legal team led by Ozekhome, to conduct the visit tomorrow. That has so far been assured us.
“We can authoritatively confirm to you all at this stage that Nnamdi Kanu is very much alive, and still being detained in the facility of the State Security Services (DSS) National Headquarters, Abuja.”
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The secret police had on three occasions denied Kanu’s legal representatives from having access to him.
DSS had claimed that its operatives meant to receive them were unavailable.
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