Department of State Services (DSS) have restricted newsmen from gaining access to the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Officials of the DSS stationed at the doorway of the courtroom stated that the barring of journalists is as a result of the order from their superiors.
Dressed in regular clothes, the DSS officials said: “We are working under directives.”
Another operative at about: 8.57am said: “We will allow you people when in at the appropriate time, when we get the directive to do so.”
Kanu’s trial was scheduled to begin at 9am, as presided over by Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja.