*Accuses DSS of denying him access to medics
*Clim Kanu Jewish denied religious rights
By Our Reporters
Counsels to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi kanu, Barr. Aloy Ejimakor and Ifeanyi Ejiofor, have claimed that the condition i which their client is detained by the Department of State Services (DSS), is very inhuman.
The lawyers also alleged that the agency refused to grant Kanu’s requests for his medical examination by a medical doctor of his choice an independent medical professional, adding that despite a court order, the condition of his detention remaine harsh, degrading and inhuman.
They lamented that kanu has solitarily been confined to a very tiny cell for 23 hours of the day, without access to sunlight or any social interaction and that any detainee who dzres to greet him during the single hour he is allowed outside his cell is promptly put in solitary confinement or transferred to maximum security as a punishment for exchanging mere greetings with him.
They said: “Our Client, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has instructed us to make the following information public.
“That despite a Court order to the contrary, the condition of his detention at the DSS headquarters in Abuja continues to be harsh, degrading and inhumane.
“That he is solitarily confined to a very tiny cell 23 hours of the day without access to sunlight and any social interactions whatsoever.
“That he bbelieves that this is aimed at inflicting extreme emotional and mental distress on him and breaking him psychologically.
“That he believes that this is aimed at inflicting extreme emotional and mental distress on him and breaking him psychologically.
“That because of this, detainees have resorted to avoiding him and exchanging salutations with him, not to talk of any other form of social interactions.
“That since the Nigerian government extraordinarily renditioned him, he has not been allowed a change of clothing; and his Jewish prayer shawls and other religious materials brought to him by his Counsel were rejected and returned.
“That the DSS has refused to replace his corrective glasses (lenses) which were smashed to smithereens by agents of the Nigerian government in the process of the violence they unleashed on him while abducting him in Kenya. This has led to a rapid deterioration of his sight.”
The IPOB leader also lamented that he is restricted to meeting with his counsels in an atmosphere devoid of private discussions and denied perusal of legal documentation his Counsel brings to him for review.
“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who witnessed the detention before being led away was very distressed and alarmed by this incident and he considers it a brazen act of intimidation of his Counsel.
“That he has, to date, been denied access to the British Consul despite her repeated requests to see him; and on the day of his last court appearance (10th November, 2021), the British Consul who was in Court to observe the proceedings was intimidated by DSS officers, who restricted her from coming close to Mazi Kanu.”
Fearing for his life, Kanu’s lawyers disclosed that the DSS has denied his repeated requests for independent medical examination to determine the extent of damage done to his body by a suspected substance he may have been injected with during his abduction.
“He has reason to believe that the said injected substance is depleting the potassium content of his body, thus causing him constipation, a feeling of skipped heart beats, palpitations, fatigue, muscle weakness/spasms and numbness.
