Tuberculosis Inmate Moved Near Nnamdi Kanu’s Cell – Lawyer Cries Out
Prince Mandela Umegborogu, one of the lawyers of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has bitterly complained over the alleged relocation of a tuberculosis inmate near Kanu’s cellphone at the Abuja headquarters of the Department of State Services, DSS.
Kanu’s attorney who spoke with the reporters after a movements visit to the IPOB Leader on Monday expressed deep fear over the grave fitness implications of having a tuberculosis affected person in one’s environment.
He stated that Kanu used to be exceptionally enraged about the unhappy development which he alleged ought to be a deliberate try to infest him with an infectious disease.
”I met with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu these days (Monday) at the DSS headquarters in Abuja… He complained to me that they delivered someone struggling from tuberculosis his cell block.
”The patient, Emeribe Uduma was once arrested in Ohafia on September 15, 2022 , and handed over to the DSS.
“Kanu complained to me that that boy was suffering from tuberculosis and he used to be moved near his cell. That’s being done so that he would infest him and others with tuberculosis.
”You comprehend that tuberculosis is very infectious. Do they choose to infest him so he will die in detention?
”Onyendu also advised me that he ( Kanu) was the day past ( Sunday) bleeding from his nose. He requires serious attention through his private physician.”
The legal professional stated that when DSS officers got here to fetch Kanu after their meeting, he raised the equal grievance before them. However they denied having any tuberculosis inmates round the facility.
”When we finished discussing and some DSS personnel came to take him back to his cell he raised the issue.
”He advised them that it is immoral and inhuman to do certain things even if it’s an order from above. He instructed them to have a feel of their own and refuse to obey directions that are inhuman and illegal.
”I also confronted them and advised them it was once wrong to deliver a tuberculosis patient shut to people particularly these in confinement where you don’t have ventilation. But they stated they had examined each person and no one had tuberculosis but Onyendu informed them it’s a lie”.
In reaction, Kanu’s household has called on the worldwide community to prevail on the Authorities not to let Kanu die.
The family which spoke via Prince Emmanuel Kanu expressed fear and renewed the call for his launch in compliance with a variety of court orders.
” They must undergo in thinking that Kanu is an harmless man who has been set free by using the Court.
Any graph to convey him down through infectious disorder need to be dropped.
The international neighborhood have to be successful on Nigeria to make sure nothing takes place to him”.
Meanwhile, efforts to attain the DSS had been unsuccessful and access is given at the time of submitting this report.
