A Federal High Court, in Abuja, on Monday, fixed Feb. 28 to hear a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by the Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
According to reports, Justice Taiwo Taiwo fixed the date after counsel to the Department of State Services (DSS), Idowu Awo, informed the court that his clients had a counter affidavit that had not been served on Kanu.
Awo, at the resumed hearing prayed the court for more time to affect the service of the application on Kanu’s lawyer, Maxwell Opara who described the request of the DSS lawyer as an attempt to continue to subject his client to solitary confinement and other inhuman treatments.
He argued that the counter affidavit by the DSS was already filed out of time.
He said even though the application was dated Jan. 28 and counsel to the DSS has his contact, it was not served on him until now.
Also, the lawyer to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Simon Enock, informed that he had filed a motion for an extension of time to regularize their counter affidavit.
