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Like a scene from a war front, many people were harassed, as motion recording around the court was disrupted and phones were seized for slight expression of rights. Persons believed to have come in solidarity with the IPOB leader were quickly dispersed while those who resisted were hassled and threatened by overzealous security operatives. Anyone found recording or streaming activities around the court premises were either arrested or harassed.
Abubakar blamed the government’s failure to produce Kanu for logistics reasons. His explanation ignited heated arguments from counsel to Kanu, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who accused the Department of the State Services of frustrating efforts by lawyers and family members to access the detained IPOB leader. Ejiofor countered the claim of the prosecution, saying the IPOB leader had been moved out of Abuja.
According to him, the British Government had expressed readiness to provide “consular assistance” for Kanu but needed him to assent to the assistance by signing some forms, “but when we took the forms to Kanu in DSS custody, the secret police stopped Kanu from signing the consular assistance forms. President-General of the body, Basil Onyeachonam Onuorah, said: “The doctrine of presumption of innocence under our law guarantees all rights and privileges to Nnamdi Kanu until the contrary is proven.”
It was gathered that the policemen came in about seven trucks and dispersed the Yoruba Nation supporters who gathered on the court premises awaiting the position of the court. The Beninoise court was still in session at the time of filing this report.The court had earlier barred journalists and supporters of Igboho from the courtroom but allowed the agitator’s lawyers and his wife, Ropo, inside the courtroom.
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