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The judgement comes less than two weeks after Mr Kanu declared his intention to negotiate with the Nigerian government to drop the treasonable felony charges against him. He also accused the SSS operatives of preventing his lawyers from taking notes while meeting with him, sometimes outrightly preventing them from meeting him.
He sought “a declaration that the respondents’ act of forcible seizure and photocopying of confidential legal documents pertaining to facilitating the preparation of his defence, which were brought to him at the respondents’ detention facility by his lawyers, amounted to a denial of his rights to be defended by legal practitioners of his own choice.
Mr Kanu, therefore, sought an order of injunction restraining and prohibiting the respondents from their act of forcible seizure and photocopying of confidential legal documents brought to him at the detention facility by his lawyers. He also sought an order mandating the respondents to jointly and severally pay the sum of N1 billion as damages for the mental, emotional, psychological and other damages he suffered as a result of his rights’ breach.
He said at no time did any SSS personnel seize or confiscate documents brought to Mr Kanu by his lawyers or any other person. According to him, the applicant , along with his counsel, was permitted to consult and interact on visiting days in one of the best interview facilities of the SSS to ensure maximum comfort of the applicant and his visitor.
He said Mr Kanu had argued the same issues before the judge handling his trial, Nyako, and the matter was already reserved for judgment.