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Stop Writing Me Letters – Justice Binta Nyako Warns IPOB Lawyer Ifeanyi Ejiofor

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Justice Binta Nyako Warns IPOB Lawyer Ifeanyi Ejiofor

The Federal Excessive Court docket decide, Justice Binta Nyako warns one of many embattled legal professionals of the chief of the Proscribed Indigenous Individuals of Biafra (IPOB), Ifeanyi Ejiofor to cease writing letters on to her in respect to the trial of his shopper, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

 

Justice Binta Nyako who gave the strict warning within the court docket on Thursday stated that Kanu’s lawyer had written her two prolonged letters straight as in opposition to the process of channelling such letters via the Registrar of the court docket.

 

Justice Binta Nyako, nonetheless, stated she won’t take kindly to a repeat of breach of process to achieve court docket on such challenge if it occurs once more.

 

It might be recalled that Kanu’s lawyer had approached the court docket with a movement on discover searching for abridgement of time to deliver again the trial of the Biafran chief from January 19 subsequent yr to an early date both in November or December.

 

The Biafran chief was, nonetheless, not in court docket to witness proceedings as he was not introduced by the Division of the State Service DSS the place he has been on remand since his re-arrest by the federal authorities after leaping bail earlier granted him.

 

The federal authorities via its counsel Mr Shuaib Labaran knowledgeable the Choose that his shopper has filed a counter-affidavit to vehemently oppose the request to abridge time within the trial that had been fastened for January subsequent yr.

Justice Binta Nyako Warns IPOB Lawyer Ifeanyi Ejiofor

Justice Binta Nyako who was stunned by the motive of the movement advised Kanu’s lawyer that there was no judicial time for her court docket to bend backwards the trial date.

 

Within the drama that ensued, the case diary of the court docket was learn to the lawyer to ascertain that the court docket has crowded circumstances to take care of.

Nevertheless, following the persistent plea, Justice Binta Nyako agreed to shift different circumstances slated for January 18 to accommodate Kanu’s trial which can final until January 19 and 20.

 

In one other drama, Ejiofor sought to maneuver one other utility by Kanu difficult the competence of the 7-count treasonable felony prices introduced in opposition to him by the federal authorities.

 

The transfer was resisted by the federal authorities lawyer on the bottom that the movement was not ripe for listening to and that the enterprise slated for the day was the movement for abridgement of time solely.

 

Justice Binta Nyako agreed with the federal government lawyer and rejected the bid to deliver the movement ahead.

 

Nevertheless, following one other request on behalf of Kanu by his lawyer, Justice Binta Nyako ordered DSS to permit Kanu to apply his religion, change his garments and be given the utmost attainable consolation within the detention facility.