According to Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lead attorney for the besieged Indigenous People of Biafra leader, the Department of State Services has refused to execute court orders providing Nnamdi Kanu maximum comfort in detention, including the right to change his clothes.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the lawyer claimed that the detaining agency has “unrepentantly continued to treat the court’s orders with the greatest disdain.”

On December 2, 2021, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered that the secessionist leader not be discriminated against while in the custody of the secret police.

Kanu was also given maximum comfort in detention, including the ability to change clothes, free practice of his Jewish faith, including access to Jewish religious materials, the ability to receive any visitor of his choice, and the ability to mingle freely with other inmates in DSS custody, according to the presiding judge.

After allowing a plea for abridgment of time, Justice Nyako also postponed Kanu’s trial until January 18, 2022.

However, Ejiofor said he visited Kanu in DSS prison on Monday, claiming that the DSS flouted and violated the court’s orders, which were issued on December 2, 2021.

He said this in a statement which was titled, ‘Update On Today’s Visit To Our Indefatigable Client – Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu At The Headquarters Of The Department Of State Services (DSS) Abuja’.

He said, “We were informed by our client – Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu that none of the pronouncements made by the Court on the 2nd of December 2021 has been obeyed by the lawless DSS. They have unrepentantly continued to treat the Orders of the Court with the greatest disdain.

“Our client – Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu further informed us that he had not eaten anything since Sunday, apparently being punished because we dared to complain to the court about the harsh condition under which he is being held in custody. But, very, unfortunately, this should be the height of their reckless affront to the orders of the court.

“At the time Her Lordship made these far-reaching orders in open court, I did not mince words in bringing to the attention of the court that the operatives of the DSS will flout these orders, pursuant to which the court specifically directed me to come back to her with these facts if her order is flouted by the detaining authority.”

He said the IPOB leader’s legal team would go to court right away to report the development, which he called “totally unacceptable, grossly condemnable, and intolerable.”

Kanu has not been convicted of any crime, according to Ejiofor, and he is still presumed innocent of all charges leveled against him.

He said, “The detaining authority (DSS) is an Agency established by instrumentality of the laws and should operate within the confines of the same laws establishing them, and should not be seen as a lawless entity, which unfortunately is what they represent in practice”.