Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel to the chief for the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has accused the Division of State Service of subjecting Kanu’s attorneys to remedies meted out to hardened criminals on visits to their shopper who’s in detention.
Ejiofor, who stated they visited Kanu within the DSS custody on Thursday’e disclosed this in a press release on Thursday titled ‘Replace on right this moment’s go to being twenty sixth day of August 2021.’
The assertion reads partly, “Attorneys on this go to have been searched in a fashion akin to a scenario the place hardened criminals are being looked for potential incriminating objects.
“They have been traumatised not solely as a result of they have been inhumanly handled, however the attorneys have been additional dehumanised after this embarrassing and unwarranted frisking, by being allowed to put on solely slippers, after being divested of their footwear, studying glasses and writing supplies to go to their shopper.”
The lawyer said that the scenario known as for quick intervention of the court docket as a result of the visits have been ordered by the court docket.
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