Jonathan Nwokpor
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On Friday, the Abuja Federal High Court threatened to imprison Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi, the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), for preventing IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu from his legal team.
The court accused the DSS DG in a Notice of Consequences of violating its order granting Kanu’s attorneys regular access to him.
Kanu’s principal attorney, Aloy Ejimakor, made the Notice of Consequences public after the Registrar of the Abuja Federal High Court served it on the DSS DG.
After the Notice of Consequences was served, Ejimakor threatened to start contempt proceedings against the DSS boss in a statement he signed.
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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