At the court session on Thursday, Ejiofor, in an oral application, requested an order for his client to be given maximum comfort.
Ruling on the application, Binta Nyako, the presiding judge, said a custodial centre is not a “five-star hotel” where he can receive maximum comfort.
The judge however ordered the DSS to provide Kanu with the “maximum possible comfort”.
She said he should be allowed to have a bath whenever he wants, change his clothes, eat properly and practice his faith.
At the last adjourned date, the judge had adjourned Kanu’s trial to January 19, 2022, after his lawyers walked out of the court in protest.
However, the legal team filed an application seeking an earlier date for the trial to hold.
“We filed an application for abridgement of time. You know we were not in court when the date was fixed and we said we would go back and consider our options and the immediate option was to file an application for an abridgement of time,” Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu’s lawyer, told TheCable.
Following the application, the judge said the diary of the court was full and that the earliest possible date is January 18 — one day before the previous date given.
The Cable
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