Court Threatens To Jail DSS DG For Denying Nnamdi Kanu Access To Lawyers

The Abuja Federal High Court has issued a stern warning to the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi, threatening him with imprisonment for obstructing the legal team of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from accessing him.

In a Notice of Consequences delivered on Friday, the court accused the DSS DG of flouting its earlier ruling that mandated routine access for Kanu’s lawyers.

The notice was served by the court’s Registrar and subsequently made public by Kanu’s lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor.

In a statement, Ejimakor expressed his intention to initiate contempt proceedings against the DSS boss, emphasizing the seriousness of the court’s directive and the implications of its violation.

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.”