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-QB5NXqmHJG.jpg "The legal team and Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra")
The legal team of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, has declared that if the Department of State Services (DSS) did not uphold the IPOB leader's right to a fair trial, they would not take part in the proceedings on April 17, 2024.
At a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, Ejimakor said they would pull out of the trial should the DSS continue to frustrate their efforts to prepare Kanu for his trial.
Ejimakor said, “This legal team is not going to be part of the travesty of justice. If Nnamdi Kanu is not going to get a fair trial, this legal team is not going to be part of murdering justice in a Nigerian court. It doesn’t mean we are going to abandon Kanu but we will, as a group, abandon the process. we will refuse to be participants in a process that is geared to and preprogrammed for injustice on the head of Kanu.
“Let that be clear. It doesn’t sound like we are going to boycott Kanu but you can say we are boycotting the judiciary and what we are boycotting is manifest injustice.”
Kanu has been under the DSS's custody since 2021 for treason and terrorism charges by the government.
