Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has, again, expressed worry over his client’s continued detention against court orders, his poor health and Department of State Services’ (DSS) alleged refusal to grant his doctors access to his health needs.
In a tweet, yesterday, Ejimakor said: “When you prevent a sick detainee from proper medical care of his choice, and, at the same time, refuse to release him despite court orders, you’re endangering such a person’s life.”
He recalled that the same was done to the late Nelson Mandela of South Africa, and he survived. The lawyer prayed that Kanu would also survive.
Ejimakor further said that the IPOB leader would have been freed “if Kenya showed constriction by demanding his return to Kenya; if Britain protected him like they protected Umaru Dikko in 1984, and if Nigeria decided to obey the law,” describing Kanu’s ordeal as a “conspiracy of three nations against one man.”
Recall that Ejimakor had, on June 8, after visiting the IPOB leader in detention, said he was dismayed that the DSS blocked doctors from seeing his client after it had pre-approved the visitation, pursuant to his request to meet his doctors.
The special counsel, who said that this matter would be revisited sooner than later, in another tweet, said: “For the record, all of Kanu’s medical reports currently used in his cases were secured by me.
“The first medical report from the DSS was given to me by the agency at Kanu’s instructions, and the ones from the United States of Aneruca (USA) and Kenya even addressed me by name. It’s Kanu, who assigned this task to me.”
