Ejiofor said the Nigerian government should allow his
medical personnel to visit him in the custody of the Department of State
Services.
I feanyi Ejiofor, the lawyer representing the arrested
leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has stated that his
client needs “quick, advanced medical attention because he is not feeling too
good."
Ejiofor said the Nigerian government should allow his
medical personnel to visit him in the custody of the Department of State
Services.
Ejiofor stated these in an exclusive interview with
SaharaReporters on Tuesday morning, adding that the legal team had filed court
processes in that regard to enforce that his medical doctors are allowed to see
him.
The lawyer added that none of Kanu’s family members had
seen him since July 18 when he was arrested by the Nigerian authorities.
Ejiofor said, “We have formally applied to the court in
that regard (to have doctors visit him). We have filed a court process to allow
medical experts to visit him. Whatever treatment they (the DSS) are giving to
him is not enough. We want an expert that will examine him because he is still
not feeling good. We want an expert that will provide him with advanced medical
attention – not the type is given where he is being detained.
“The preliminary investigation conducted on his health
shows that his heart has enlarged by 13 percent. So he needs quick and prompt
advanced medical attention. So we have formally applied to the court for that.
Let us see what happens in the coming days. So then we can pick it up from there.
“Yes, it is correct that his family members have not been
able to see him. I am particularly worried. They don’t have access to him. The
wife, the brothers, cousins and children have not been allowed to see him. That
is why I classified his detention as solitary confinement and also being
subjected to regular mental torture. If you have access to your wife and
children and brothers and sisters, you will have some element of relief from
your immediate family. But in this case, they are not allowed to see him. They
have not been allowed to see him. It is only us, his lawyers, who visit on
appointment.”
SaharaReporters had on Monday reported that the wife of
Nnamdi Kanu, Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, lamented that none of the family members has
been able to reach him since he got into the custody of the Department of State
Services.
Uchechi had added that Kanu is believed to be beaten and
tortured by the security agencies in Kenya and Nigeria, giving all of them a
great worry.
The IPOB leader’s wife, who is currently in the North of
England, stated this in an interview on Sunday she granted to United Kingdom
newspaper, The Sunday Times.
Speaking for the first time since the arrest of Kanu, the
wife said, “It’s hard for me to speak. I’m extremely devastated. He has been
beaten and tortured and I am scared for his life.”
She said she and the family had had no contact with him
since his arrest.
Uchechi added, “I was always worried about Nnamdi. When
you’re asking for freedom from dictatorship, you are a target. But when I saw
what happened in Belarus and how no one did anything, I knew nowhere was safe.
“We’re just calling for a referendum exactly like
Scotland did with the UK and UK did with the EU but the Nigerian government
wants to exterminate our whole family. It’s a scandal and a thing of shame that
Britain is not acting to secure their citizens.”
Three weeks ago, Kanu appeared in court in Abuja, hooded
and charged with inciting violence. The Nigerian authorities had claimed that
he was extradited to the country to continue his trial.
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