Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, Wednesday, informed a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that he has
been a fan of Liverpool Football Club since childhood.
Kanu disclosed this when Justice Binta Nyako jokingly asked
him his favourite football team.
The IPOB leader said he had been a fan of Liverpool Football
Club since he was seven, NAN reports.
The development occurred when Kanu’s lawyer, Chief Mike
Ozekhome, complained that the Department of State Services (DSS) had not been
allowing him and other counsel enough time to meet with the IPOB leader
whenever they visited him in detention.
The trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako, who reminded Ozekhome
that he had once thanked the DSS in open court for procuring an orthopaedic
mattress, pillow and others for his client, said she had already ordered that
the security outfit should give Kanu moderate treatment and care while in
detention like food, clothing, medicare, etc.
Then Nyako turned to Kanu and said despite her order for him
to change his clothes, the IPOB leader continued to put on the same milk-colour
designer wear.
The judge said though Kanu, on his own accord, keeps coming
into the court with the same attire, she saw him in the media with other
clothes.
The judge then jokingly said she was a Liverpool fan and
asked Ozekhome if he was also a fan of a football club, and the senior lawyer
answered in the affirmative.
He said he was also a fan of Liverpool F.C.
Nyako then asked Kanu if he was a fan of Chelsea Football
Club, going by the designer’s clothes he keeps wearing to court.
“What is your team?” she asked.
Kanu gently stood up in the dock and said: “My team is
Liverpool even from the age of seven”.
The judge then told the DSS legal director, who was in
court, to always allow Kanu to watch the matches of his favourite football
club.
“You must allow the defendant to watch the matches any day
they are playing,” she said, adding that she was going to make an order to that
effect.
The DSS official, however, said his office had always given
him access to watch.
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