Justice John Tsoho, of the federal high court, Abuja, has ordered that Nnamdi Kanu be moved from the custody of the DSS Kuje prison pending his trial for treason.
The order was consequent upon the argument of his counsel, Chuks Muoma, who 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.
Counsel to DSS Mohammed 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.