John Tsoho, justice of the federal high court, Abuja, has ordered that
Nnamdi Kanu be remanded in Kuje prison pending his trial for treason.
Tsoho, the judge, gave the order after listening to Mohammed Diri,
counsel to the Department of State Services (DSS), and Chuks Muoma
(SAN), counsel to Kanu. Muoma
had argued that the accused person be
remanded in prison custody away from the cell of the DSS. He said that
his client had been kept incommunicado in the custody of the DSS for
three months.
He therefore asked the court to send the accused person to
prison so that his family could have access to him. Diri, however,
prayed the court to keep Kanu in the custody of the DSS for security
reasons. But the judge ruled that the defendant be kept in the custody
of the Nigeria Prison Service, Kuje. Kanu arrived at the court a few
minutes past 9am looking unkempt. On December 23, 2015, he had refused
to take his plea before Ahmed Mohammed, justice of the federal high
court, Abuja, citing lack of confidence in the court. This was after
Adeniyi Ademola, another justice of the federal high court, Abuja,
ordered the DSS to release him unconditionally, and after a chief
magistrate court discharged and acquitted of charges of criminal
intimidation and ownership of unlawful society.
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