Members of the authorized group of the chief of the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, have warned that they could boycott court docket proceedings attributable to perceived injustice towards their consumer.
They acknowledged that they might not take part within the proceedings if the IPOB chief’s proper to a good trial was not revered by the Division of State Providers.
The IPOB chief is being charged with treason felony and terrorism and has been within the DSS custody since 2021.
He had utilized to be granted bail based mostly on well being grounds and to allow him to arrange for trial, however his software was rejected by Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja.
Nyako as a substitute promised to grant an accelerated listening to within the matter.
Kanu’s trial is anticipated to begin on April 17, 2024.
However Kanu’s authorized group led by Alloy Ejimakor has been addressing journalists on the issue they’ve been dealing with getting ready the IPOB chief for trial.
On April 9, 2024, throughout a press convention in Abuja, Ejimakor accused the DSS of denying them entry to their consumer.
He additionally accused the service of regularly seizing each authorized doc they took to the DSS facility to arrange Kanu for trial.
At one other press convention in Abuja on Wednesday, Ejimakor stated they might pull out of the trial ought to the DSS proceed to frustrate their efforts to arrange Kanu for his trial.
Ejimakor claimed that the actions of the DSS arr denying the IPOB chief his proper to a good trial.
He stated the authorized group wouldn’t be a part of such a course of ought to it proceed.
Ejimakor stated, “This authorized group is just not going to be a part of the travesty of justice. If Nnamdi Kanu is just not going to get a good trial, this authorized group is just not going to be a part of murdering justice in a Nigerian court docket. It doesn’t imply we’re going to abandon Kanu, however we are going to, as a gaggle, abandon a course of.
“We are going to refuse to be members in a course of that’s geared to and pre-programmed injustice on the top of Kanu. Let that be clear. It doesn’t sound like we’re going to boycott Kanu, however you possibly can say we’re boycotting the judiciary, and what we’re boycotting is manifest injustice.”
Efforts to get the DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, proved abortive as calls to his cell phone indicated ‘line busy’.
He had but to reply to a message requesting his response to the allegations levelled towards the DSS as of the time of filling this report.
