Lawyers to the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, have threatened to withdraw from the ongoing terrorism trial if the Department of State Services (DSS) denies them full access to Kanu who has been in their custody for about two years.
While addressing newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, the lead counsel to the IPOB leader, Alloy Ejimakor, said the legal team would not engage in any process that would bring injustice to Kanu.
In his words, “We will not participate in the assassination of justice in a Nigerian court over the head of Nnamdi Kanu. We will refuse to be part of the programmed injustice.”
He condemned the action of the DSS to deny access to Kanu by his legal team, which made it difficult to adequately prepare for his defense in the case of terrorism charges leveled against him by the federal government.
Another member of the team, Nnaemeka Ejiofor, stated that if Nigeria were a human being, she would have been sent to prison for committing the heinous crime.
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“FG sent people to Kenya to kidnap Kanu; these people should be arrested and punished.
“Unless Nigeria frees itself from the crime of Kanu kidnapping, it will remain a criminal country,” he said, adding that Kanu never committed a crime and therefore did nothing to justify his persecution by the Nigerian government.
Ejiofor further claimed that Kanu was in detention at the direction of the federal government, thereby violating the court’s order, particularly the decision of the Supreme Court, which found that Kanu’s detention had no basis or leg to stand.