1st July, 2024
By Paul Dada
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja, has held that there is no evidence that the Department of State Services violated the right of the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to fair hearing.
The judge took this position on Monday as he dismissed the suit filed by Kanu in which he demanded N1billion damages for alleged right violation.
Kanu in the suit marked: FHC/CS/1633/2023 claimed that the Department of State Services DSS and its Director General infringed on his right by not letting his lawyers have an unfettered access to him to get him prepared for his defence in his ongoing trial for terrorism.
But Justice Omotosho held that the IPOB leader did not show any credible evidence that the DSS deprived him of having necessary interactions with his lawyers’.
The judge also said there was no credible proof that the DSS officials eavesdropped on Kanu’s conversations with his lawyers as alleged by him.
