Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court sent back pro-Biafra agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, back to the Department of State Services, DSS, custody despite his application to be moved to the Correctional Centre in Kuje.
This was as the judge rejected the application filed by Kanu’s lead Counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, that the agitator be transferred from DSS custody.
Justice Nyako’s Thursday rejection made it the second time Kanu’s move to be transferred to Kuje Correctional Centre failed.
Her latest ruling is coming a few months after it had been reported that Nigeria’s intelligence community frowned against the demand to move Kanu to Kuje Prison from DSS custody.
The intelligence community had warned that the motive to transfer Kanu may not be unconnected to a “planned” jail break by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its militant wing, Eastern Security Network (ESN).
An officer had said a grand plan of a massive attack on the Kuje Prison had been uncovered.
The officer had said Kuje Prison may not be able to withstand a coordinated intrusion.
However, IPOB frowned at the decision of the judge to reject the application seeking Kanu’s transfer to Kuje prison.
The separatist group accused Justice Nyako of doing the bidding of Fulanis by keeping their leader in DSS custody.
IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, stressed that the ruling was a “foul play.”
He said with the ruling; there are suspicions that Kanu may not get the justice he deserves under Justice Nyako.
Powerful maintained that the judge’s decision was against the fundamental human right of the group leader.
