Lawyers threaten to withdraw from trial over DSS denial of access to Nnamdi Kanu

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The legal team of the detained IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu has threatened to pull out of the trial if the DSS refuses unfettered access to Kanu.

The legal team of the detained leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu has threatened to pull out of the trial if the Department of State Service refuses unfettered access to Kanu who is held in its custody. Speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, lead counsel to the IPOB leader,…

Speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, lead counsel to the IPOB leader, Alloy Ejimakor, said the legal team will not participate in any process that would bring injustice to Kanu.“We will not be part of murdering justice in a Nigerian court over the head of Nnamdi Kanu. We will refuse to be part of the programmed injustice,” he said.

He said, “if Nigeria was to be a human being, it would have been committed to prison for committing the heinous crime.“Until Nigeria purges itself of the crime of kidnapping Kanu, it remains a crime country”, he said and added that Kanu never committed any crime as such did not do anything to warrant his “persecution by the government of Nigeria.”

“To avoid a vacuum, we are managing it as country and yet the government is not respecting it, until the people of Nigeria come together to decide whether to exist as nation there cannot a Nigeria.” The National Rescue Movement , on Wednesday, expressed outrage over the unwarranted circumstances leading to the arrest of chieftain, High Chief Sobomabo Jackrich Egberipapa, at his residence in Usokun, Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. It recalled that the arrest occurred in the early hours of Monday morning, while the community was still asleep.

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