The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed contempt charge against the Director General, Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, over alleged refusal to obey court orders.
In the application dated and filed on June 11, counsel to Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, said the DSS should be made to show cause why an order of Committal Should Not Be Made on it.
The Federal Republic of Nigeria is listed as complainant and first respondent in the case while the DG of DSS, Yusuf Bichi is the second respondent.
The IPOB leader alleged that despite being served with the orders of the trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Federal High Court, made on May 20, Bichi had refused to comply with the said orders.
NAN reports that Justice Nyako had, on May 20, declined to grant an application filed by Kanu to set aside his 2017 bail revocation following the allegation that he jumped bail.
The judge also refused to transfer him to Kuje Correctional Centre or place him under house arrest as requested.
However, Justice Nyako reviewed conditions for visiting the IPOB leader at the DSS facility by his lawyers and varied the visitation days from two to three days in a week.
The judge ordered that Kanu should be given a safe and “clean” room to prepare for his defence with his team of counsels not exceeding five in number, instead of three lawyers that was formerly directed.
She equally ordered that Kanu and his lawyers should be allowed such a facility that is required for the preparation of his defence and be allowed to take notes which Kanu which the DSS DG had failed to comply with.