Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has responded to the claim by Barr.
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu wherein the lawyer said that he
(Kalu) violated the law by visiting the secessionist leader in jail.
Kalu said Ejiofor’s anger may be out of vexation that he was
not around to listen to their conversations.
Ejiofor had issued a statement where he claimed that the
lawmaker violated the court order by visiting his client in custody of the
Department of State Services, DSS, in Abuja.
Kalu, a former Governor of Abia State and the Chief Whip of the Senate had Monday, visited Kanu, who is currently detained in the facility of the DSS.
Kalu said he is very disappointed with the lawyer, adding
that Ejiofor was very much informed that he was scheduled to visit Kanu but
claimed that he (Kalu] violated the guidelines stipulated for visiting his
client.
He said that the public has been misinformed about his visit
to the IPOB leader in DSS custody.
“I also read a report stating that I took pictures with
Nnamdi and also tweeted same on my Twitter account,” Kalu said in a statement
he made available to DAILY POST on Wednesday.
“For the records, the Department of State Services (DSS) did
not break any protocol during my visit as I fulfilled all the requirements
expected of me before I saw Nnamdi. The DSS affirmed that I cannot see Nnamdi
without the application of his lawyers which I diligently did.
“Probably, Barrister Ejiofor may have expected me to arrive
at 4pm for a scheduled 2pm visit. What many people refer to as ‘African time’
is not my style. I strictly keep to time and it is a discipline I have upheld
since my childhood.
“I arrived the DSS headquarters at 1:50 PM; went through the
necessary protocols and met Nnamdi at 2:17 PM. I stayed with him until 2: 57
PM. Even though he asked that I stayed longer but I had to leave because of
other engagements.
“During my visit to Nnamdi, I did not even take my mobile
phone along and no photograph was taken. The photograph people are circulating
was the one I took with him when I visited him at the Nigerian Correctional
Service Medial Security Custodial Centre, Kuje in 2016 and later, his parents
in 2017. My Twitter account has also been inactive.
“I don’t also know if Barrister Ejiofor is aware that Nnamdi
is not under compulsion to see anyone. If he didn’t want to see me, he could
have as well declined, but he was glad to see me and also expressed deep
appreciations.
“Ejiofor’s anger seems to be borne out of vexation of not
being around to listen to our conversations.”
According to the Senator, Ejiofor is sounding like someone
who is a beneficiary of the crisis going on in the South East, adding that men
like the senior lawyer may not see the economic damage the region is going
through because of the weekly sit-at-home.
Kalu said that Ejiofor should do well to consider the
security, safety and wellbeing of the people, adding that there could be a
peaceful protest without disruption of the economic activities and going
violent.
The former Abia Governor called on the lawyer to be
patriotic and rise above what he described as primordial and pecuniary interest
and put the people first.
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