Through a lawyer, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have requested that Nnamdi Kanu, their leader, be released from the Department of State Services (DSS) as soon as possible so that he can receive the necessary medical care.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the IPOB leader’s attorney, revealed on Monday that Kanu had a stomach ailment and was taking antacids and other prescribed medications constantly.
He criticized the DSS for failing to follow Justice Binta Nyako’s directive from the Federal High Court in Abuja that the IPOB leader receive serious medical attention.
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Ejiofor said in a new statement on Thursday that the IPOB leader’s health is getting worse as a result of the use of subpar medications on him.
He stated that following his routine visit to Kanu at the DSS headquarters on Thursday, it was discovered that the agency is “deliberately refusing to avail Kanu of the prescribed possible medical relief.”
The IPOB lawyer said: “Sadly, we made the startling discovery that despite the alarm raised on Monday, calling for the intervention of responsible foreign Governments and institutions, on the DSS’ flagrant disobedience of orders of the court, particularly in denying Onyendu Nnamdi Kanu, access to his personal medical doctor and medication, the DSS immediately resorted to local chemist store to procure substandard drugs to be administered on Onyendu.
“Since it is now obvious that the DSS does not have the facility, capacity and/or resources to manage Onyendu’s deteriorating health condition, we are compelled to publicly implore the DSS, to allow us to have Onyendu back unconditionally, or better still, allow us to purchase the prescribed drugs for him pending his unconditional release from their custody.”
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Nnamdi Kanu’s attorney claims that he hasn’t let his client to eat anything for the past 48 hours because of the painful symptoms that come along with his gastro intestinal illness.
With this new development, he continued, they are now certain that the Federal Government of Nigeria is ostensibly scared of the expected favorable outcome of the Court of Appeal’s ruling.
“Hence, they are doing everything possible to subject our client – Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to severe torture, and inhuman/degrading treatment before he finally regains his freedom,” he said.
Ejiofor, however, assured that the defense team led by Mike Ozekhome is not relenting in all actions being taken to correct this anomaly and to put to a halt, “this seemingly impunity and lawlessness being brazenly exhibited by the DSS”.
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