IPOB: Update Emerges On Nnamdi Kanu’s Health Status In DSS Custody

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has again released an update on the health status of its embattled leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who is in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS.

In a letter which copy was made available to newsmen on Saturday morning, the Biafra group was seeking humanitarian intervention to force the Muhammadu Buhari government to release Kanu, noting that the agitator may lose his life in detention.

The letter which was delivered through Kanu’s legal counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, said the IPOB leader’s heart is failing him, and he is having severe breathing problem, Naija News understands.

Ejimakor raised alarm that Kanu’s family and members of the group are not certain about his present life chances, noting that the agitator have not received adequate medical attention in custody of the DSS.

Kanu’s lawyer disclosed this while appealing to the International Red Cross Society to facilitate immediate and independent medical examination of Kanu.

Ejimakor said Kanu had told him and the group that his blood has been drawn more than 20 times without explanation.

He stressed that he has continued to feel apprehension and dread that he is in custody of those that partook in his extra-ordinary rendition

Ejimakor in the letter entitled ‘RE: Urgent Appeal for your humanitarian intervention with the Government of Nigeria to grant Mazi Nnamdi Kanu access to independent medical examination and care,’ urged the Red Cross to bring its good offices to bear on the Government of Nigeria to grant Kanu opportunity of an independent medical examination and care within the shortest possible time.

According to Ejimakor: “Our client informs us that his blood has been drawn more than 20 times without explanation, and that he continues to feel apprehension and dread that he is in custody of those that partook in his extra-ordinary rendition.

“His health, particularly his heart, is failing him and he was having severe breathing issues; that his finger nails are cracking and he feels dizzy. He told us that he was not receiving the necessary medical care even when the Government of Nigeria is aware from his in-jail medical examination that his heart has enlarged by 13%.

“He said serious medical problems require the urgent and constant attention of specialist doctors [which are not being given to him in the detention facility]. In this circumstance, he is daily facing the grim and imminent risk of losing his life in detention.”