The Federal High Court in Abuja is not taking the refusal of the secret police to allow lawyers access to Nnamdi Kanu, as it has issued imprisonment warning to the Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS), Adeola Ajayi.
The legal team of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has repeatedly accused the SSS of denying them access to him, since he was brought back to Nigeria from Kenya in June 2021 under controversial circumstances.
The Abuja High Court Abuja, on 20 May this year, having ordered the SSS to allow Mr Kanu to receive visitors for three days in a week – Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, is not happy with the continual denial and has warned Mr Ajayi to allow the legal team access to the IPOB leader.
“Take notice that unless you obey the directions contained in this order (see overleaf) – by allowing the applicant’s (Kanu’s) counsel to conduct the court-ordered visitations with the applicant on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays – you will be guilty of contempt of court and will be liable to be committed to prison,” the court warned Mr Ajayi in the Friday notice.
The notice was titled, “Form 48 Notice of Consequences of Disobedience of the Order of Court brought pursuant to Order IX, Rule 13 of Sheriff and Civil Processes Act, CAP 56, LFN 2004” was also uploaded by Mr Kanu’s special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, on Facebook, on Friday evening.
Apart from Mr Ajayi, the court directed that the federal government should be served with the notice through their lawyer, Adegboyega Awomolo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
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