THE Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, the permission to apply for an order of mandamus to compel the Department of State Service to allow him to have unfettered access to medical care.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/ 2341/2022, Kanu through his legal team led by Mike Ozekhome and Ifeanyi Ejiofor said he needed an independent medical examination to ascertain his health condition.
After hearing an ex-parte application filed by the IPOB leader, Justice Binta Nyako, directed Kanu’s legal team to serve all the relevant processes on both the DSS and its Director General, who were cited as 1st and 2nd Respondents in the matter.
The IPOB leader said he would require from the DSS his admission records, medical and clinical notes, nursing notes, observation charts and documentation during treatment or stay-in-hospital, laboratory test results, pharmaceutical records, radiological scans, images and reports, blood transfusion records, physiotherapy and rehabilitative treatment records, clinical findings, as well as diagnosis and treatment prescribed records.
He pointed out that on October 21, 2021, Justice Nyako had ordered that he should be allowed access to three persons of his choice, including his medical doctors.
Specifically, he is praying to the court for an order, granting him leave to, “apply for judicial review in the form of an order of Mandamus, compelling the Respondents to allow the Applicant unhindered access to his medical doctors to enable them to conduct an independent examination of his present deteriorating health condition, as earlier ordered by the Federal High Court, Abuja, Coram, Hon. Justice B.F.M. Nyako, on the 21st day of October 2021; and as required by the express provisions of section 7 of the Anti-Torture Act, 2017.
This is coming as the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has alleged the poisoning of Kanu by the Department of State Security (DSS).
According to a statement issued by IPOB through a widely circulated voice note by their Defence Minister, Mazi Chinasa Nworu, the statement declared war and instructed the destruction of every government property.
He called on all Biafrians to take a stand and fight for their leader and what they stand for. The statement also warned that they shouldn’t use this cause as a means to foster criminality, or cause harm to a fellow Biafrians.
“It is better they hand him over to us now, let us create some memories with him before any other thing happens to him. But let’s be aware that we are fighting for a just cause so don’t be stupid and don’t be a criminal, don’t start robbing or stealing people’s things. Don’t destroy banks, schools, market and business places, don’t harm the elderly or molest the young”.
“But any other govt property, burn it down, destroy it “, he said.
