Ripples Nigeria
The lead counsel to incarcerated leader of the proscribed Igbo separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has raised an alarm after the Department of State Services (DSS) allegedly refused to allow his embattled client meet with a lawyer from the United States, Bruce Fein.
In a statement on Friday, Ejiofor claimed that Fein had arrived Nigeria to meet with Kanu, but was prevented from seeing him by officers of the secret police on Thursday.
In the statement titled ‘Update on yesterday’s visit of US lawyer Bruce Fein,’ Ejiofor said:
“Yesterday’s (Thursday’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….
