We’ve received approval to visit Nnamdi Kanu in detention —Bar. Ejiofor

Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has announced that the Department of State Security (DSS) has approved his request to visit him in detention.

Barrister Ejiofor disclosed this in a brief statement made available to pointblanknews.com on Friday.

The lawyer, who promised to keep the world updated on the outcome of the meeting, wrote:

“Update: Thankfully Our effort is yielding the desired result. We have just received a communication approving our visit to our client, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“Shall keep the World posted on the outcome, immediately after the meeting, later in the Day. God is with Us.”

Bar. Ejiofor had lamented on Thursday that his effort to visit Kanu in detention was met with resistance.

He wrote: “Only yesterday, and in line with the protocols of the State Security Services, we applied for an audience with our Client—Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and very suprisingly, the SSS is yet to approve Our request.

“This is despite the fact that he was abducted in a foreign land and consequently marshalled before the Federal High Court No 2 Abuja, in a suspicious circumstance, and without my knowledge as the substantive counsel in the matter.

“This drama took place in Nigeria Court in gross violation of his constitutional rights to fair hearing.

“If at the close of work today, nothing is heard from Department of State Security Sevices, we will be returning back to Court for the needful.

“DSS custody shouldn’t be the appropriate custody to keep our client, because they are hostile not only to we lawyers but his relatives too.

“As it stand today, we can not verify the health status of our client, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who has hitherto been on a daily medication.

“It is most plausible, that following restriction placed on visiting him, he may have been subjected to all forms of inhuman treatments ranging from torture, rough-handling and threats, all targeted at extracting confessional statement from him.

“The World is hereby placed on notice that if anything happens to our client—Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who is presumably being subjected to these inhuman treatments, the Nigeria Government will be held responsible.

“Our client is inherently and constitutionally presumed innocent of all allegations against him, particularly now the Government has submitted to judicial process.

“We still apply for calm from all corners as we expedite legal action.”