Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, more commonly called Sunday Igboho, has told the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
In a video he released on Monday, Igboho said Kanu was just an agitator fighting for the Southeast region just like himself who is agitating for the Southwest.
The Yoruba Nation activist said, “Release Nnamdi Kanu, stop politics. This guy did not do anything. Today is 26th February, 2024. Release him, let him go and stay with his family.
“This guy is just fighting for his people in the Southeast like me that I am fighting for my people in Yoruba land, release him, let him go. Stop politics playing. Release Kanu. Please release him.”
Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, the special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu on Monday said his client needed immediate proper medical treatment to avoid him having heart failure.
Ejimakor who had said this while speaking to newsmen after his team applied for Nnamdi Kanu’s bail at the Federal High Court in Abuja, stated that it was obvious medical facilities with the Department of State Security Service (DSS) could not treat the IPOB leader well and things are allowed to go worse.
He had said, “From the medical reports made available to us, which we fighting a cause, his health is not too wonderful. He needs proper medical attention and it is obvious that in the DSS hospital where he is detained, they do not have the capacity or the enough facilities to handle the situation, his health condition. You know, you can imagine the situation where samples of his blood had been taken over 25 times, you know, and yet there’s no cure in sight. we have also brought in an independent medical practitioner who also examined him and came up with the conclusion that the situation he is having right now can lead to heart failure. We know that they may not be able to have the facilities to treat such conditions,
“You might even find it difficult to have it in the State House (Aso Rock). You remember in the State House sometime ago, the former first lady said they don’t even have syringes. They don’t have paracetamol, so you can imagine them bringing an issue of heart before such facilities. We do not think they have the facility to take care of him or otherwise they would have done it. every health otherwise we also believe that you don’t have the facility to manage you know such that.”
Earlier today, the court had fixed March 19, 2024, to rule on the bail application.
Kanu’s counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, had argued that the IPOB leader should be granted bail because of his ill health.
But the prosecuting team led by Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), which replaced David Kaswe, a lawyer with the Federal Ministry of Justice, urged the court to dismiss the bail application.
Awomolo argued that the Department of State Services (DSS) has the medical facilities required to take care of the IPOB leader.
The judge subsequently adjourned ruling on the bail application to March 19, 2024.
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