A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday scheduled February 28 as the hearing of a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by the Leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo fixed the date after counsel to the Department of State Services (DSS), Idowu Awo, notified the court that his clients had a counter-affidavit that had not been served on Kanu.
Two requested more time for the service of the application on Kanu’s lawyer, Maxwell Opara.
But Opara tagged the request of the DSS lawyer as an attempt to continue to subject his client to solitary confinement and other inhuman treatments.
He said even though the application was dated January 28 and counsel to the DSS had his contact, it was not served on him until yesterday.
Also, the lawyer of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Simon Enock, informed the court that he had filed a motion for an extension of time to regularise their counter-affidavit.
The application was neither opposed to by Opara nor by Awo.
Justice Taiwo, who said the matter was coming before him for the first time, fixed February 28 for hearing.
