Operatives of the State Security Service (SSS), on Wednesday, blocked a British diplomat from speaking with the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

Eno Agodo, British Vice Consul, Lagos, had attended Mr Kanu’s trial before Binta Nyako on Wednesday in Abuja, where the Biafran agitator is being tried on a 15-count amended charge bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism.

At the close of proceedings in the suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, Ms Agodo first sought the permission of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Mr Kanu’s lead counsel to speak with his client, which was granted.

But as the British diplomat made her way to the dock where Mr Kanu, who holds dual citizenship in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, was speaking with family members, she was intercepted by the Director of Legal Services of the secret police and operatives who had formed a wall around the IPOB leader.

Thereafter, PREMIUM TIMES reporter sought to speak with Ms Agodo on what transpired, but she declined.

Jonathan Bacon, a political counsellor at the British High Commission, had written a letter dated January 11, 2022 and addressed to the trial judge, Mrs Nyako, which he sought permission for Ms Agodo to attend Mr Kanu’s trial from January 18 to 20.

In the letter entitled, ‘Nnamdi Kanu Trial-Access for British Consular Official to Attend Federal High Court, 18th to 20th January, 2022’, the British High Commission, specifically requested that Ms Agodo attended the IPOB leader’s trial as an “observer.”

The United Kingdom harboured Mr Kanu after he jumped bail and fled Nigeria in 2017 when soldiers invaded his home.

This stalled his trial in Nigeria for years until he was rearrested, reportedly in Kenya, and brought back to Nigeria, in June last year.

While abroad, Mr Kanu continued reaching out to his Nigerian followers through social media channels as violence linked to the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the armed wing of IPOB, escalated in the South-east.

During the period, the U.K. government also resisted calls from the Nigerian government to declare IPOB a terrorist organisation as it was done in Nigeria in 2017.

Another blockade

Blocking the British representative from having access to Mr Kanu on Wednesday highlights what appears to be government’s desperation to cut him off from having any contact with foreigners or their agents.

A similar scenario played out during Mr Kanu’s trial on Tuesday, when Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who led the IPOB leader’s defence team, made frantic but unsuccessful efforts to get Bruce Fein, a United States lawyer, to attend the court session.

Mr Fein, a counsel to the secessionist group in the U.S, has not been able to have an audience with the Mr Kanu, as he claimed several attempts to visit the IPOB leader at the SSS detention facility in Abuja had been resisted.

“I have not been able to meet with my client, Mr Kanu since I arrived Nigeria,” Mr Fein told our reporter in an interview last December.

“Officials of the State Security Service wouldn’t let me meet Mr Kanu,” Mr Fein added, saying, the action of the spy agency is a “gross violation” of Mr Kanu’s fundamental rights.

Mr Fein had received similar treatment during previous proceedings in the case.

However, a top official at the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, said the American lawyer had no right to represent the IPOB leader in a Nigerian court.

“Bruce Fein has no right to represent either Mr Kanu or IPOB in any Nigerian law court,” the official who pleaded anonymity told this reporter.

“Was Mr fein called to the Nigerian Bar?,” the source queried.

Last week, Mr Kanu wrote the British High Commission and the U.S. embassy in Nigeria, urging them to send representatives to observe proceedings in his ongoing trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The IPOB leader had premised his requests on the grounds that the presence of the British and American envoys might guarantee fair trial of his case.

Ojiofor:
Thank God Nnamdi Kanu is receiving a fair and free trial.

jmoore:
Confused IPOB terrorist group!!

They keep insulting Britain for creating Nigeria and making Fulani the 2nd colonial master. Why do you want to associate yourself with the envoy from British?


Always reasoning through the anus. No wonder they believed Trump will give them referendum.

IGBOSON1:


To you, stating the facts about the ignominious role Britain played (and continues to play) in the unfortunate evolution of Nigeria as a failed country, amounts to ‘insult’!

IGBOSON1:


Very silly comment! But coming from you, it doesn’t come as a surprise!

IGBOSON1:


To you, stating the facts about the ignominious role Britain played (and continues to play) in the unfortunate evolution of Nigeria as a failed country, amounts to ‘insult’!

jmoore:

Facts? You mean delusion. Same way you believe Jubril is in Aso rock.


Why is IPOB inviting British? You accuse someone for your downfall and you are inviting same person.

helinues:
Very good.

Kanu is in zoo, he should be ready to be treated like an animal

after4:
shey you claimed the UK ignored IOB call on them the other day, why you con dey get diarrhoea now?

Ojiofor:


To brain-washed fanatic like you it is a silly comment.Which fair trial did ESN gave to their victims?
They tortured old men to death and castrated some until they bled to death.I wish those victims of barbarity from ESN were offered fair trial like MNK they would be alive today.

https://thenationonlineng.net/hoodlums-chop-off-mans-penis-in-imo/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jtejOPhbY

That is the kind of trial Nnamdi Kanu's ESN gave to innocent old men who are Eze in their communities. What was their crime?
Souless folks like you keep supporting evil and abomination in Igboland in the name of an illusion called Biafra.

chiagozien:
[s][/s]Ipob and ESN we know have not kill anyone.




But i support them to defend themselves anytime Nigeria terrorist army and police attack them.

Ojiofor:
[s]

To brain-washed fanatic like you it is a silly comment.Which fair trial did ESN gave to their victims?
They tortured old men to death and castrated some until they bled to death.I wish those victims of barbarity from ESN were offered fair trial like MNK they would be alive today.

https://thenationonlineng.net/hoodlums-chop-off-mans-penis-in-imo/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jtejOPhbY

That is the kind of trial Nnamdi Kanu's ESN gave to innocent old men who are Eze in their communities. What was their crime?
Souless folks like you keep supporting evil and abomination in Igboland in the name of an illusion called Biafra.[/s]

IGBOSON1:


To you, stating the facts about the ignominious role Britain played (and continues to play) in the unfortunate evolution of Nigeria as a failed country, amounts to ‘insult’!

Emergingnation:
This infomous propaganda isn't selling.... Kanu will come out stronger with Biafran flag in his hand, whether chronic unity that can't survive outside Nigeria like it or not.... His court winning last week speaks volumes..

Ojiofor:


Let him accept first that he is IPOB member before he will be given Biafran flag.
How can they give him Biafra flag when he is denying IPOB in the court room?
Next court hearing the prosecutor is going to ask him if he is a Biafran and he is going to swear by the grave of his father that he is not a Biafran

helinues:
Very good.

Kanu is in zoo, he should be ready to be treated like an animal

So Kanu wasn't abandoned by UK as you were rejoicing over in the thread below..

helinues:


This life Sha. When you over beat drum, na tear it dey tear. People no dey associate with failure, disaster and calamity cos that's what Igbos are.

Are Igbos saying all those listed countries are not reading about their activities in their region. Another forced sit at home today .

Are there no people from other part of Nigeria residing in any of the SE states, no foreigners? Why should the sit at home distrupts their daily routine?

A group that has not attracted a single development to their region except destruction..

Imagine this yeye Igbos saying there won't be Nigeria National anthem in all SE states when this clown group don't even have one single kindergarten school in their name.

Thunder fire devil

As for Kanu, he and his supporters are yet to understand what he got himself into. Kanu is in zoo, so shall he be treated like an animal..

Emergingnation:
Says gullible Fulani Muslim that believed every propaganda emanating from his fulani Jihadist government for his cause of unity begging....

Kanuwill be the last person to deny being an IPOB which he is being identified with globallyl..

The actualization of sovereign state of Biafra is a task that must be accomplished...

Shakitibobo23:
Nigeria should not allow anyone to speak to terrorists.

Will Britain allow Nigeria to speak to terrorists in the UK?

Your imaginery terrorist that won a court case against your Jihadist government in her own court .

Delusional stunts

Ojiofor:


IPOB z0nebies like you are known to be delusional.
Nnamdi Kanu and his legal team are only after his release they don't give a damn about any Biafra cos he knows, na owu ihe oji eri umu mugu dika gi oru

IGBOSON1:


Very silly comment! But coming from you, it doesn’t come as a surprise!

Emergingnation:
in your figment of imagination Abi..

Nigeria'll Break, your backwards region must govern themselves by their preffered Sharia rules....

FreeStuffsNG:
It's all charade and side attractions. A competent court is already on the case.
All the enemies of Nigeria will lose las las. They always lose. God bless Nigeria forever.