The State Security Service, SSS, has described the lawyers who filed contempt charges against Director-General Yusuf Bichi as charge and bail lawyers of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that a legal practitioner, Maxwell Okpara, had filed a contempt charge against Mr Bichi over alleged refusal to release the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, despite multiple court orders.
But the secret service, in a series of tweets on Tuesday, noted that the lawyers were headed by an “overzealous and uninformed IPOB/ESN lawyer”, referring to Mr Okpara, one of the counsels to the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
The statement reads, “Charge and bail, overzealous uninformed IPOB/ESN lawyer Maxwell Okpara mobilises other like-minded lawyers against DGSS. Futile Efforts. Well, Nigerians, beware! This is in bad faith. Transferred aggression.
“A Biafran Republic agitator and Outlawed IPOB counsel defending the suspended CBN Governor. Is IPOB defending one of theirs?.
“What a contradiction. what’s the connection? Is someone telling us something? May Maxwell be properly educated on points of law, please,” the tweet reads.
