It has been uncovered that a British representative who attempted to talk with the head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu in court was impeded by Operatives of the Department of State Services.
The occurrence happened on Wednesday, as per a report by Premium Times.
Eno Agodo, British Vice Consul, Lagos State, had gone to Kanu’s preliminary before Justice Binta Nyako at the Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday where the favorable to Biafran instigator showed up on a 15-count revised charge verging on backstabbing lawful offense and illegal intimidation.
As per Premium Times, at the end of procedures in the suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, Agodo initially looked for the authorization of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Kanu’s lead guidance to talk with his customer, which was conceded.
However, as the British agent accessed the harbor where Kanu, who holds double citizenship in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, was talking with relatives, she was blocked by the Director of Legal Services of the mystery police and agents who had shaped a divider around the IPOB pioneer.
From that point, Premium Times tried to talk with Agodo on what unfolded, yet she declined.
A political guide at the British High Commission, Jonathan, Bacon had composed a letter dated January 11, 2022 and addressed to the preliminary adjudicator, Nyako, where he looked for consent for Agodo to go to Kanu’s preliminary from January 18 to 20, 2022.
In the letter named, “Nnamdi Kanu Trial-Access for British Consular Official to Attend Federal High Court, eighteenth to twentieth January, 2022”, the British High Commission, explicitly mentioned that Agodo went to the IPOB pioneer’s preliminary as an “spectator.”
SaharaReporters had revealed early this month how Kanu, through his attorney, Ejiofor requested of British government, the United States and the United Nations to effortlessness his appearance in court.
Kanu after he escaped Nigeria in 2017 resided in the United Kingdom, following attack of his home in by Nigerian troopers in 2017.
This slowed down his preliminary in Nigeria for a really long time until he was rearrested, apparently in Kenya, and took back to Nigeria, in June last year.
While abroad, Kanu kept connecting with his Nigerian devotees through web-based media channels as brutality connected toward the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the outfitted wing of IPOB, raised in the South-east.
During the period, the UK government additionally opposed calls from the Nigerian government to proclaim IPOB a fear based oppressor association as it was done in Nigeria in 2017.
Hindering the American legal counselor from approaching Kanu on Wednesday features what has all the earmarks of being government’s urgency to cut him off from having any contact with outsiders or their representatives.
A comparable situation worked out during Kanu’s preliminary on Tuesday, when Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who drove the IPOB pioneer’s safeguard group, put forth distracted however fruitless attempts to get Bruce Fein, a United States legal advisor, to go to the court meeting.
Fein, an insight to the secessionist bunch in the U.S, has not had the option to have a group of people with Kanu, as he asserted a few endeavors to visit the IPOB pioneer at the SSS detainment office in Abuja had been stood up to.
“I have not had the option to meet with my customer, Mr Kanu since I showed up Nigeria,” Fein said in a meeting last December.
“Authorities of the State Security Service wouldn’t allow me to meet Kanu,” Fein added, saying, the activity of the government agent office is a “gross infringement” of Kanu’s basic freedoms.
The American sacred advice had gotten comparative treatment during past procedures for the situation.
While it couldn’t be found out assuming that Agodo’s essence in court was in light of Kanu’s solicitation, the American consulate had no agent at the procedures last Tuesday and Wednesday.