Aloy Ejimakor, a human rights activist and special counsel to the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the general public to disregard a viral report claiming that the latter has been released from detention.
Naija News reports that Kanu has spent over three years in the Department of State Services (DSS) detention following his arrest on June 27, 2021, in Kenya and subsequent extradition to Nigeria.
The IPOB leader is facing charges of terrorism, treasonable felony, and inciting violence through his Radio Biafra, amongst others.
Speculations, however, on Wednesday are that Kanu has been released.
Ejimakor, in a swift attempt to clarify the reports, took to his X handle to describe the reports as fake news.
He wrote: “Fake News Alert: The general public is hereby advised to disregard the viral rumour that MAZI NNAMDI KANU has been released.
“It’s pure #FakeNews. The day #MNK (the #BigElephant & leader of millions) is freed, the earth itself will announce it, and it won’t require any confirmation.”
In another report earlier, the legal team representing the detained IPOB leader expressed serious concerns over his welfare, accusing the Department of State Services (DSS) of isolating him from all visitors, including his lawyers.
According to the legal team, this recent move by the DSS violates standing court orders that allow regular visits to the embattled leader.
Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu’s special counsel, issued a statement on Monday, outlining the DSS’s refusal to allow the legal team to meet with Kanu during their routine visitation to the DSS headquarters in Abuja.
The visit was part of a court-mandated schedule that permits Kanu’s lawyers and family members to check on his well-being.
“Today, 14th October 2024, in blatant violation of subsisting court orders, the Department of State Services (DSS) prevented Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s legal team from seeing him,” Ejimakor said.
“This marks the continuation of an unconstitutional trend, as no visitors have been allowed to see him since his last court appearance on 24th September 2024, during which Kanu demanded the recusal of Justice Binta Nyako from his case.”
Ejimakor noted that the DSS’s refusal to allow visitation coincided with the aftermath of Kanu’s successful recusal of Justice Nyako, a decision that was later reversed by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
He suggested that the DSS’s actions may be linked to Kanu’s legal victory, which has since been overturned.
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