Ohanaeze raises the alarm over Nnamdi Kanu’s health

Apex Igbo sociocultural group, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has raised the alarm over the alleged deteriorating health of the detained Leader of the Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

The alarm followed an earlier report from Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the IPOB’s Attorney, which indicated that “Nnamdi Kanu is suffering from gastro intestinal illness, which necessitates the constant use of antacids and other available medical treatments”.

He added: “The DSS has refused to allow him have even the smallest amount of the prescribed painkiller, which could have given him short-term respite.

The DSS has repeatedly treated the existing court order—which specifically directed that Nnamdi kanu should be granted access to his doctor for an independent review/investigation of his current health status—with the utmost contempt and disdain”.

Ohanaeze, which expressed concern over the report of Kanu’s health, warned that the security situation in the Southeast would worsen if anything happens to the IPOB leader in

In a statement in Enugu by Ohanaeze spokesman, Alex Ogbonnia, the group said: “The above report should be very worrisome to any fair-minded patriotic Nigerian. The fair-minded and patriotic because, it is self-evident that the Nnamdi Kanu phenomenon is a product of circumstances.

“It is rather an outcome, or the effect of the orchestrated alienation of the Southeast from the centres of power in Nigeria, especially since the onset of President Buhari administration

Ohanaeze reminded the federal government that the incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu had rather contributed to the enormity of insecurity in the Southeast “and one wonders what will happen if by the utter carelessness, negligence or unnecessary victimization, something untoward happens to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu”.

Ogbonnia recalled: “Several patriots such as Chief E K Clarke, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Dr. Bitrus Porgu among others have decried the unjust treatment to the Igbo of the South East.

The Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal in a humane and patriotic candour stated that “the marginalisation of the Southeast geopolitical zone by the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari is crazy and unprecedented”.



Source The Nation