Legal counsel to the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Barr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor has cleared the air on the rumours surrounding the health status of the detained agitator.
Ejiofor and other lawyers led by Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, were at the headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja on Monday to meet with Kanu, Naija News understands.
There was, however, a mild drama at the secret police facility today as the lawyers were reportedly kept waiting for over an hour without the sight of their client.
According to Ejiofor, when they could no longer wait, they staged a stout protest and demanded explanations as to why they were kept waiting and without availing to them their client as granted by a court order.
In a statement he signed and released via his social media page, Facebook precisely, Ejiofor said upon their arrival at the DSS office, they were consequently allowed to proceed with the business of the day- to visit Nnamdi Kanu as his lawyers.
He explained further that they were immediately ushered into the room designated for the visit.
The statement reads: “All the protocols were duly observed, as we willingly submitted ourselves to same, in line with the DSS stipulated routine guidelines. We waited until minutes turned into an hour, and there was no signal that we would have Onyendu brought to us.
“Consequently, the erudite Silk leading our team raised alarm and demanded to have the attention of the DSS superiors for an explanation on why a court-ordered visit which, ordinarily, should not extend beyond two hours was taking almost one and a half hour waiting time, with no hope of meeting with Onyendu.
“Following the stout protest by the erudite Silk, we were consequently brought in, to meet with some superior officers at a meeting where all superior personnel connected with the matter were invited. Far-reaching contacts were made to establish the fact that our Client Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was presumably protesting the previous three visits which were aborted by the DSS.
“All efforts 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,” Ejiofor noted.
Assuring that Kanu is still alive, Ejiofor said the effort is presently being intensified to pacify the agitator to have a one-on-one discussion with his legal team, to enable them to brief him on legal steps they 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.
Ejiofor stressed that the team is hopeful that the needless impasse will be resolved between now and tomorrow morning, to enable the legal team led by Chief Ozekhome, SAN, to conduct the visit tomorrow, Naija News reports.
“We can authoritatively confirm to you all at this stage that ONYENDU MAZI NNAMDI KANU is very much alive, and still being detained in the facility of the State Security Services (DSS) National Headquarters, Abuja”, the legal counsel noted.
Ejiofor promised to keep updating the public on matters connected with this visit to Kanu, and any other compelling attendant concerns thereto.
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