Following alleged ill-treatment in the custody of the Department of State Security Services (DSS), leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has taken the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and the DSS to court.

Kanu is seeking an order from the Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the DSS to allow him access to food, medical care, and clothes of his choice.

The suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS1585/2021 was instituted on Kanu’s behalf by Maxwell Chibuike Okpara, his attorney.

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In the suit dated December 13, 2021, Kanu also applied for another order against DSS to allow him to decide on his feeding by himself, and at his own expense.

No date has been fixed for hearing of the suit.