Kanu’s principal counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, said on behalf of the legal team that DSS on Friday refused to allow the lawyers to meet Kanu together to prepare him for his trial.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The legal team of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has accused the Department of State Services (DSS) of frustrating every prospect of a fair trial for Kanu as the hearing of the IPOB leader’s case scheduled for June 19 and 20 draws closer.
In a statement, Kanu’s principal counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, said on behalf of the legal team that DSS on Friday refused to allow the lawyers to meet Kanu together to prepare him for his trial.
“Today, being 14th June 2024, the DSS once again exhibited its vested disrespect for judicial pronouncements when it (in disobedience of court order) refused Mazi Kanu’s legal team to meet with him as a team (or together) to prepare him for the said hearing/trial, commencing on 19th June,” the statement said.
“The DSS insisted that members of the legal team (including the undersigned Counsel) must meet with Mazi Kanu separately or we must leave the premises. For this reason, Mazi Kanu’s team of lawyers left the DSS facility without seeing him, a situation that will surely complicate the hearing on 19th June.
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“This latest disobedience of a subsisting court order by the DSS is symbolic of what has become an executive self-indictment of the trial that the government itself and the Court insist must take place.
“If they do not obey a simple court order that is directly geared to giving them the trial they so much desire, why then is the AGF still bent on prosecuting the case? “Are we to believe that it is only a sham trial that they secretly desire? To be sure, it is impossible to prosecute a case without having the ingredients of a fair hearing in place.”
Ejimakor said these are signs that the case against Kanu has no merit, adding that it is the reason every avenue for a fair hearing is being blocked.
“If the AGF through the DSS are apprehensive of the fell consequences of a fair trial, then they need to do the needful by discontinuing this case without further ado. Otherwise, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his legal team will resist any trial that is against the tenets of the Constitution,” the statement noted.