Kanu Has Refused To Eat For Seven Days In DSS Cell, Health Worsening – IPOB

Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) said Nnamdi Kanu had refused to eat for seven days for fear of being poisoned in the custody of the Department of State Services.

The group’s Media and Public Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement made available to journalist said any plans “to inject our leader with poisonous vaccine that will make him die slowly” would lead to “unimaginable consequences.”

It expressed regret that Kanu was being denied access to his family members, doctors and lawyers, warning that “Nnamdi Kanu must not die in custody!”

The statement read in part, “Following the refusal of the Nigeria Government and its wicked security agency, the Department of State Services, to allow our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers and family access to him in the dungeon of DSS’ secret cell, it is now confirmed that their real intention in kidnapping him and bundling him back to Nigeria is to kill him.

“The mission they could not actualise in September 14, 2017, when soldiers invaded his Afaraukwu home during Operation Python Dance, is what they want to actualise now.

“His health has been deteriorating in the DSS cell as he has refused to eat their food for almost one week since they kidnapped him. We demand that DSS should allow him access to his lawyers and family members for this is his lawful right.

“His lawyers are being harassed and we pity them and Nigeria if anything happens to our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The Nigeria Government and security agencies must understand the product we are made of and how prepared we are.”

The proscribed group, in its statement, urged South-East governors, Ohaneze Ndigbo, and politicians in the region to ensure that no harm came to Kanu, alleging that “Miyetti Allah and sympathisers of terrorists are going free in the country but ordinary persons and innocent citizens are being molested every day because they are Biafrans.”

IPOB added, “The Fulani- controlled Federal Government of Nigeria and DSS should release our leader for international medical check-up. He must have access to his doctors to ascertain his current health status since he was abducted and tortured by the security agents.

“We declare without equivocation that the Nigerian government should not take our calmness for granted. Should anything untoward happen to our leader while in detention or even after, we will totally cripple Nigeria and its government!

“Our intelligence units are following the events, including the torture being meted out to him since his abduction. The world should see how the wicked Nigerian government is provoking us.

“While Boko Haram terrorists and bandits maiming and killing indigenous Nigerians in their ancestral lands are made to go free, and even the few captured ones are released and given cash after sumptuous treatment in detention, an innocent freedom fighter is made to languish in detention.

“His lawyers are being harassed also. This is unacceptable! The world should not pretend about this injustice!”