Tribune NG
The lead and special counsels to detained pro-Biafra agitator and leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, have raised the alarm on the safety and health condition of their client.
The duo of Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor and Bar Aloy Ejimakor lead and special counsel respectively to Kanu, in a statement they both signed and made available online expressed serious concern about Kanu’s safety in DSS custody.
“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 twenty-three (23) hours of the day without access to sunlight and any social interactions whatsoever. He believes that this is aimed at inflicting extreme emotional and mental distress on him and breaking him psychologically.
“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…
