Punch
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is undergoing hardship in the custody of the Department of State Services and has not changed his clothes since June, his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said on Wednesday.
Ejiofor also described as falsehood claims by the spokesman for the DSS, Peter Afunaya, that Kanu was not being maltreated in custody.
Ejiofor made the clarification in a statement titled, ‘Press statement in rebuttal of the wrong narrative being fed the public by the Department of State Services vide its spokesman’.
He said, “We find it very incomprehensible to believe that a supposedly responsible agency of the Federal Government such as the Department of State Service, notable for their indiscretion to court pronouncements, instead of taking steps to address the serious issues we are raising concerning the ill treatment being meted out to our client, deliberately issued a statement fully known to them to be total falsehood.
“If we may ask, what are they trying to achieve by deceiving the public? This and many other questions are begging for answers. Let Afunanya deal with these questions.
“Our position was to initially ignore the blatant falsehood deliberately dished out to the public by the DSS spokesman, Afunanya. But in view of the damage the intended result will achieve, it is now compelling that we set the records right.
“In his desperate effort to deny the obvious, Afunanya stated that our client is allowed the opportunity of daily changing of his clothes. This is a blatant falsehood!
