Politics
BIAFRA: Nnamdi Kanu’s Counsel Gives Update On His State Of Health
The lead counsel for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has raised alarm over the condition of health of the IPOB leader.
Ozekhome in an update on Kanu’s health condition said the IPOB leader lacks potassium in his bloodstream and may need urgent heart surgery.
The lawyer disclosed that he and his team of over 18 lawyers signed a notice of application for an Order of Judicial Review (Order 34) in the Federal High Court in the Abuja Judicial Division, Abuja.
The order with suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/2341/2022, dated December 20, 2022, sought to compel the State Security Service to grant Kanu ‘unhindered access to his medical doctors to enable them to conduct an ‘independent examination of his present deteriorating health condition’ as earlier ordered by the Federal High Court on October 21, 2021.
Ozekhome also prayed the court grant leave to Kanu to compel the DSS to avail him with “all his medical records from June 29, 2021, to date, including but not limited to the admission records, medical and clinical records, nursing notes, observation charts and documentation during treatment or stay in the hospital, laboratory test results, pharmaceutical records, radiological scan, images and reports, blood transfusion records and physiotherapy and rehabilitative treatment records, among others.”
The document disclosed that Kanu’s abduction in Kenya and how he was subjected to torture and inhuman treatment has worsened his health condition.
According to Ozekhome, Kanu suffered a mild cardiac arrest before he was ‘smuggled’ back into Nigeria, noting that his health condition has continued to take a downward spiral since then.
He said, “That various medical personnel that attended to the Applicant whilst in custody had repeatedly informed him that they could not ascertain the reason for the depletion of potassium in the applicant’s blood.
“That on various occasions, the medical personnel brought by the respondents took the applicant’s blood sample and allegedly transported same to South Africa for screening; and up till the present, there is no end in sight for their trial-and-error medicare.”
