The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has raised the alarm over its leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s worsening health condition, saying that he needs urgent treatment by his personal doctor as the emergency clinic of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja is ill-equipped and rushing Kanu to the clinic will probably cost him his life.
IPOB on Friday in a statement by its Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, said that Kanu’s health has continued to deteriorate and he was rushed to “an ill-equipped DSS clinic in a medical emergency in Abuja on Monday, February 27, 2023.”
IPOB stated that Kanu was critically ill in the DSS detention and must be released unconditionally to attend to his deteriorating health urgently, warning that the Nigeria government must do the needful to avoid negative consequences that may follow if anything happened to its leader.
The group said that rushing Kanu in an emergency to an “ill-equipped DSS clinic is cosmetic and can cause more harm to him,” adding that “he needs his personal physician who understands his medical history to take care of him.”
It further stated that “We have endured all provocations; assaults, killings, illegal abductions, detentions, kidnappings, and extraordinary rendition of our leader from Kenya to Nigeria. The Nigerian government has also refused to obey their own court orders to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other IPOB members illegally detained in various detention facilities. Nobody should blame us for any action going forward.
“We are warning the Nigeria government and DSS agents to release our leader, whom they are illegally holding in solitary confinement irrespective of the court and UN working Group orders to allow him to attend to his deteriorating health.
“They should release Mazi Nnamdi KANU to undergo a much-needed heart surgery urgently.”
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