suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against the State Security Service (SSS) for the adoption of processes has been adjourned.
The matter, billed to be heard today at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Monday, was adjourned till June 20 by the court registrar following the absence of Justice Binta Nyako in court who was said to have gone for an official assignment, according to People’s Gazette.
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On May 3, the judge warned lawyers to the SSS and Kanu against truncating proceedings in the next adjourned date, following the day’s proceeding that could not go on due to an oral application by SSS counsel, Idowu Awo, seeking more time to respond to a further affidavit served on him by Kanu’s lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, in the open court.
However, Kanu, through his team of lawyers, had sued the SSS and its director general as the first and second respondents in the matter.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/ 2341/2022, Kanu prayed the court for permission to apply for an order of mandamus to compel the SSS to allow him unhindered access to his medical doctor, among others.
On February 1, the court granted Kanu the permission to apply for an order of mandamus he sought after an ex-parte motion moved by Ozekhome to the effect. While in a preliminary objection filed by the SSS, the security outfit urged the court to dismiss the suit for want of jurisdiction.
It argued that there was a subsisting judgement of a sister court delivered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo on June 3, 2022, in suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1585/2021 between Kanu and DG of SSS and two others wherein the court dealt substantially with the issue of allowing the IPOB leader access to his physician.
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