- Embattled IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu is in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS)
- The secret police made this disclosure after Kanu was finally allowed to receive a medical check-up from his personal doctors over the weekend’
- The DSS maintained that Kanu is still in its custody and has not been released as speculated in some quarters
FCT, Abuja – The leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has not been released from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).
The secret police disclosed that on Sunday, July 30, it complied with a Federal High Court order by granting access to doctors of Kanu, but that the man was still in its custody, Vanguard reported.
Kanu’s lawyer confirms that the embattled IPOB leader has returned to DSS custody
Counsel for the IPOB leader, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, told The Punch in a phone conversation on Sunday that Kanu, who has been in detention since 2021, had access to his personal physicians and had been taken back into the DSS custody.
Ejiofor said, “He has been attended to, and after preliminary examinations, he was taken back.”
The lawyer, however, declined further comments on his health conditions, among others.
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DSS releases IPOB’s Nnamdi Kanu for medical examination after court’s order, lawyer shares details
Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, detained founder of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said the separatist leader has finally undergone his medical examination at his choice facility.
Ejiofor, in a statement weekend, said Kanu went through the medical examination in an unnamed hospital in Abuja on Friday, July 28.
Ejiofor revealed that the meeting between his client and his personal doctor(s) took place outside the facility of the Department of State Services (DSS).
Nnamdi Kanu orders Biafra agitator Simon Ekpa to end sit-at-home, gives reason
In related news, Legit.ng reported that Kanu ordered Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, to put an end to all the sit-at-home orders in the southeast.
Kanu warned Ekpa “to make a public announcement to the effect that he (Ekpa) is in receipt of a direct order from him (Kanu) to cancel any pending sit-at-home in place at the moment”.
He gave the order in a handwritten letter authorised to his special counsel, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor.
Source: Legit.ng
