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…Says FG wants their son to die in detention
From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
Family of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has alleged that it appears the Federal Government wants its son dead.
The family, which spoke through Emmanuel Kanu against the backdrop of recent developments around the IPOB leader’s group, said that it appears their son had been poisoned, which informed why the government through the Department of State Security (DSS) has refused ailing Kanu from seeing his medical doctors to diagnose what’s wrong with him.
“They (DSS) are acting as if Onyendu (Kanu) has been poisoned and they want him to die gradually; this is why they are restricting doctors from attending to him.
“It appears he has been poisoned and they don’t want any doctor to get access to him to diagnose and know exactly what is wrong with him.
“This is not the first nor second time they are refusing him access to his doctors, this is the fourth time now. This is despite the fact he is not well and needs serious medical attention”.
But last week, the Head of Directorate of State of IPOB, Mazi Chika Edoziem, had advised Emmanuel and Barrister Alloy Ejimakor to retrace their steps and desist from visiting the DSS office with people they called doctors without the knowledge of Mr Mike Ozekhome, who is the lead counsel to Kanu.
“How come those that were never present when the understanding was reached to have Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s personal doctor involved in deciding the issue of his surgery are the ones who are parading people at the DSS as personal doctors of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The attempt to smuggle in certain persons as Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s personal physician without informing the SAN is very suspicious to say the least,” the group’s directorate said.
On his part, Emmanuel narrated what happened when he took Kanu’s personal doctors to the DSS medical facility, saying that they were turned back by an official of the security outfit, who claimed that they were not aware of their coming.
“The DSS asked us to bring his personal physician for ear surgery which I personally took there on Tuesday. But half way to the medical unit, one DSS personnel came out from nowhere, stopped us, that they were not aware we were coming.
“But this matter was discussed between Nnamdi Kanu and DSS on the previous Saturday and Kanu was given Monday and Tuesday to provide his doctors for ear surgery, so we had to come out”.
On whether Kanu’s wife was aware of such arrangement, Emmanuel said that he acted based on the instructions given to him by the IPOB leader.
“If Onyendu (Kanu) gives me instructions, who do I report to, I report to Onyendu.
“Those who are saying these things are far from what is happening. Onyendu gave me instructions on Monday and I had to carry them out the way they came”.
Asked if there was any crack in the wall of Nnamdi Kanu’s family and IPOB, Emmanuel said that there was none of that.
He added: “You cannot force someone to see the truth from what you are doing, just like you cannot force a blind man to see. So, I took instructions from Onyendu and his instructions are final. He ordered me on what to do and that’s what I have carried out and I don’t need to explain to anybody. Whatever he said stands.
“It’s very unfortunate that people are being misinformed, but the IPOB global family remains strong.
On the way forward on view of the grave implications to Kanu’s health, the family spokesperson said that they have written to world powers to clearly let them know the IPOB leader’s health condition and believed they would act and fast too.
