Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has raised alarm that the Department of State Security Services, DSS, refused to allow his client meet with a foreign lawyer, Bruce Fein.
Ejiofor, in a statement issued on Friday morning, claimed that a US lawyer, Bruce Fein had arrived Nigeria to meet with Kanu but was prevented from seeing him by officers of the secret police.
The statement read; “Yesterday’s Court ordered visit to Our Client – Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was aborted by the officials of the State Security Services on a reason we find extremely ridiculous.”
Following the arrival of Mr. Bruce Fein, a foremost American trained Constitutional Law Lawyer and IPOB’s Attorney in the United States of America, the game obviously took an interesting twist.
“Despite our formal notification to the Service, in line with the existing protocol, and in compliance with the Court-Ordered guideline, the officials of the Department of State Security Services came up with an excuse, “that the person assigned to receive us during yesterday’s visit was on A SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT”, and as such, the visit cannot be conducted.”
“This is not only ridiculous but a clear violation of the Court Order on guideline for visiting our Client- Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.”
“For the records, we have been consistently visiting Our Client on the specified days and time of the week, and there hasn’t been any time we were denied access to him on the ground that an individual assigned to receive us was not available.”
“Needless to mention, that no one individual has been specifically assigned to receive us on any of the visits. They are fully aware that the visit takes place every Monday and Thursday.”
“Thankfully, we have another date for Monday, and we do hope that this individual will be available on Monday to receive us, whilst we have taken steps to formally bring this latest infraction to the attention of the Court.”
