The Abuja Federal High Court on Friday threatened to jail the Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi for blocking Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, from his legal team.
In a Notice of Consequences, the court accused the DSS DG of
disobeying its ruling ordering Kanu’s lawyers to have routine access to him.
The Notice of Consequences was served on the DSS DG by the
Registrar of the Abuja Federal High Court and was made public by Kanu’s lead
Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor.
In a statement he signed, Ejimakor threatened to commence
contempt proceedings against the DSS boss following the Notice of Consequences
served.
The statement reads: “Earlier today, the Registrar of the
Federal High Court, Abuja issued a Form 48 which is a Notice of Consequences of
disobeying an order of court against the Director General of DSS in regard to
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“The Notice stated: “TAKE NOTICE that unless you obey the
directions contained in this Order (see overleaf) – by allowing the Applicant’s
Counsel to conduct the Court-ordered visitations with the Applicant on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays – you will be guilty of Contempt of Court and will be
liable to be committed to prison.”
“This Notice is necessitated by the repeated disobedience of
the court-ordered visitation of Mazi Kanu by the newly appointed
Director-General of the State Security Services (Mr Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi)
who has, for almost a month, not allowed Mazi Kanu’s Lawyers to visit him.
“To be clear, this Notice is a quasi-criminal judicial
process that forewarns any person disobeying a court order of the penal
consequences of such misconduct. Therefore, if the Director-General of DSS
persists on this ignoble path, he will leave us with no other option than to
commence vigorous contempt proceedings against him.”
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