- DSS blocked ex-lawmaker, lawyers, and family from visiting Kanu.
- His lawyer condemned the action as unconstitutional.
- Kanu remains in detention despite being acquitted by courts.
The Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday barred a former Abia State House of Assembly member, Obinna Ichita, from visiting the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Kanu’s legal team and family members were also denied access to him, sparking outrage over what they described as a violation of his fundamental rights.
His lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, disclosed the development in a post on his X account, condemning the DSS action as unconstitutional and a disregard for a subsisting court order.
“ALERT/UPDATE: Today, the DSS arbitrarily refused us (the Legal Team), an ex-member of Abia State House of Assembly & the family of MAZI NNAMDI KANU from having a visitation with him. This flagrant violation of the Nigerian Constitution and a subsisting Court order will not stand,” Ejimakor wrote.
Kanu has remained in DSS custody since his controversial rearrest and extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria in 2021. Despite multiple court rulings discharging and acquitting him of terrorism and treasonable felony charges, the Nigerian government has refused to release him.
Meanwhile, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja had earlier adjourned his trial indefinitely, further prolonging the legal stalemate over his detention.
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