Kanu’s Health Deteriorating Due to Solitary Confinement, Says Lawyer

The lawyer representing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor has raised the alarm over his deteriorating health condition due to his solitary confinement and the mental torture he was subjected to by security agencies.

Ejiofor while featuring yesterday on ‘Good Morning Show’a programme on ARISE NEWS Channel, the broadcast arm of THISDAY, said there was urgent need for his doctors to attend to him before it is too late.

He said Kanu was brought into the country after being detained, maltreated and subjected to all forms of inhuman treatment.

Ejiofor said the IPOB leader was also inflicted with severe injuries due to the handcuffs that were put on his hands for hours before he was brought to court.

Ejiofor lamented that he was not informed by the prosecution panel that his client had been‘abducted’and ‘kidnapped’from Kenya and brought into the country to appear before the court last Tuesday.

He added that if at all there was transparency in what the federal government has done, the prosecuting panel should have informed him that Kanu would be charged to court.

Ejiofor stated:“There is an underlined fact that my client will not get a fair trial in that court; that is settled. The issue of fair trial has been taken away by this collaboration. But we will keep on watching and we are going to see them in court.

“I have seen him and he has given me every information and details about what transpired in Kenya, how he was arrested, how he was taken to an unknown destination and how he was maltreated and how they nearly killed him over there. And it is obvious from what he told me that it was at the behest of the federal government that they were doing those things until when they asked them to come. This is against and obvious infractions to all international laws and treaties, but we are going to address it at that level.

“It is obvious from every indication that my client will not get a fair trial in this court, until when the contrary is established,”he added.

Ejiofor recalled that before Kanu was granted bail, he spent over two years in prison, adding that the court itself was aware that he was in prison custody before he was granted bail.