Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has raised the alarm over his deplorable condition at the DSS headquarters in Abuja.
His lead lawyers, Ifeanyi Ejiofor and Aloy Ejimakor, who made this known in a statement jointly signed on Thursday, frowned upon the “maltreatment” of their client in the custody of the secret police.
In the statement titled, ‘Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s detention condition at the DSS amounts to torture,’ the IPOB leader’s counsel said Kanu instructed them to make it public that he’s solitarily confined to a very tiny cell twenty-three hours of the day without access to sunlight and any social interactions whatsoever.
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“That any detainee who encounters and greets 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. Because of this, detainees have resorted to avoiding him and exchanging salutations with him, not to talk of any other form of social interactions.
The lawyers also said that since the Nigerian government extraordinarily rendition 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 he is not allowed to sleep with a pillow and this has led to him developing acid reflux which comes with acute burning sensations in his chest, chest pains and extreme difficulty in swallowing.
“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.
“The DSS has denied his repeated requests for an independent medical examination to determine the extent of damage done to his body by a suspected substance he may have been injected with during this abduction and extraordinary rendition. 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.”