*** You will remain in DSS custody, Court rules, denies him bail
The detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has raised an alarm over his health condition, pleading that he should be my bed out the custody of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) and be transferred to Kuje prison to save him from an alleged conspiracy to kill him
Kanu, who is currently in custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), said he has a very serious health condition that could not be handled in his present detention centre, insisting that the DSS lacked the medical facilities required for his treatment.
The IPOB leader who spoke from the dock, while his case was going on Tuesday, told the court that his ailment had to do with the heart, a situation he said had started manifesting in his physical appearance, especially his feet.
He explained further that the security agency had continued to restrict his visitors from having access to him.
He made the requests moment after the presiding job she, Justice Binta Nyako had denied his bail request
Kanu alleged a conspiracy to allow him to die in custody of the secret poli
He said, “People will come to see me; they will not allow them. They don’t have the medical facility. I have congestive heart failure; they are patching me up.
“My foot is swollen. I asked them to conduct surgery, and they said they couldn’t.
“There is a conspiracy for me to die in detention. I want to be transferred to Kuje,” he told the court.
Nnamdi Kanu is answering a seven-count treasonable felony charge that was preferred against him by the Federal Government.
Justice Nyako however expressed her displeasure over the delay in the trial since 2015, blaming it on the federal government and Kanu’s lawyers
“This is exactly the way this case has been going since 2015. I am talking to both sides. You always find a way to truncate the proceedings,” the judge fumed.
