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News - South East Updated: March 01, 2022

IPOB Breaks Silence Over Rumoured Nnamdi Kanu Death

By Zaccheus Ukhueleigbe
March 01, 2022
Nnamdi KANU discussing with his lawyer
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has reacted to the rumoured death of their leader Nnamdi Kanu.

Legal counsel to the embattled IPOB leader, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, and other lawyers led by Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, were at the headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja on Monday to meet with Nnamdi Kanu.

Ejiofor assured that Kanu is “very much alive” in the custody of the Department of State Services.

He disclosed this while giving an update after a routine visit to Kanu in the DSS detention facility in Abuja.

The counsel, however, disclosed that the legal team could not see the IPOB leader during the visit.

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In a statement he issued via his Facebook page, Ejiofor said, “All the protocols were duly observed, as we willingly submitted ourselves to same, in line with the DSS stipulated routine guidelines.

"We waited until minutes turned into an hour, and there was no signal that we would have Onyendu brought to us.

“Consequently, the erudite Silk leading our team raised an alarm and demanded to have the attention of the DSS superiors for an explanation on why a court-ordered visit which, ordinarily, should not extend beyond two hours was taking almost one and a half hour waiting time, with no hope of meeting with Onyendu.

“Following the stout protest by the erudite Silk, we were consequently brought in, to meet with some superior officers at a meeting where all superior personnel connected with the matter were invited.

"Far-reaching contacts were made to establish the fact that our client Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was presumably protesting the previous three visits which were aborted by the DSS.

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“All efforts to move the visit to his very location of detention were not granted by the DSS, as they insisted that our request ran contrary to their procedure and guidelines,” Ejiofor noted.

Assuring all present that Kanu is still alive, Ejiofor said the effort is presently being intensified to pacify the agitator to have a one-on-one discussion with his legal team to enable them to brief him on legal steps they may be compelled to take and measures to be adopted to assure him that there are legal consequences for flagrant violations of court orders by the DSS.

Ejiofor stressed that the team is hopeful that the needless impasse will be resolved between now and tomorrow morning to enable the legal team led by Chief Ozekhome, SAN, to conduct the visit on Wednesday, Naija News reports.

“We can authoritatively confirm to you all at this stage that ONYENDU MAZI NNAMDI KANU is very much alive, and still being detained in the facility of the State Security Services (DSS) National Headquarters, Abuja”, the legal counsel noted.

Ejiofor promised to keep updating the public on matters connected with this visit to Kanu, and any other compelling attendant concerns thereto.

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