…Faults NMA’s medical report
By Steve Oko
Favour Michael Kanu, spouse of the detained Chief of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra IPoB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has pleaded with Justice James Omotosho of the Abuja Excessive Court docket, presiding over her husband’s trial, to not permit him die within the custody of the Division of State Companies, DSS, the place he’s at present incarcerated.
Kanu’s spouse who made the plea in an open letter to the presiding Decide on Thursday, faulted the medical report by the Nigeria Medical Affiliation, NMA, panel concerning the well being situation of her husband.
The medical report introduced by the prosecuting crew on the court docket on Thursday, claimed that Kanu shouldn’t be below any life-threatening well being circumstances, and will stand trial.
However Kanu’s spouse, within the open letter, doubted the claims of the mentioned report, and the style it was introduced.
She maintained that her husband is critically unwell and wants pressing medical therapy exterior the DSS clinic.
Kanu’s spouse pleaded with the presiding Decide to permit her husband taken to another medical facility inside Abuja as an alternative of permitting his situation to deteriorate on the identical DSS clinic.
Expressing considerations over the pointless delays within the trial course of, and the drama over the medical report, Kanu’s spouse pleaded with Justice Omotosho to not betray the boldness she had on him.
The letter learn partly:”When your Lordship took over Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case in March 2025, if my reminiscence isn’t failing me, I believed strongly justice was at hand, having examine your impeccable repute and astute judgement. Nevertheless, with the current happenings in court docket, I can solely marvel if the attributes had been exaggerated.
“My despondency stems from two important causes:The present indecisiveness in each court docket sittings, which is an enormous distinction to the “accelerated listening to” you known as for if you got here onboard, stating how the matter had lingered far too lengthy, placing in cognizance Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as a father, husband, brother and son. The dramatic flip of occasion is wanting like a deliberate plan to maintain stalling the case whereas the defendant languishes within the DSS dungeon”.
Kanu’s spouse queried the tactic of presenting the NMA’s medical report, describing it as unethical.
“The deteriorating well being situation of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, triggered primarily on account of the torture and the inhumane therapy meted out on him when he was illegally introduced again to Nigeria from Kenya. He was dumped in a darkish, poorly ventilated cell within the DSS dungeon, with no entry to deal with his wounds or attain out to his family members.
“Your Lordship, you mandated the Nigerian Medical Affiliation to conduct a medical evaluation on the defendant as a result of clearly, you had been unsure of the report from MNK’s seasoned docs. The physique by no means performed nor submitted any medical report as reported. Reasonably, the DSS got here up with a disjointed report which was reportedly introduced in court docket at this time unethically.
“Your Lordship, you aren’t blind to the state of the medical system in Nigeria, motive nearly all politicians, workplace holders, the elites and so forth fly to different international locations with their children, for medical consideration, together with the President and Commander- in -Chief of the Armed Forces, as a result of they lack religion in their very own nation’s medical system. I may guess you do the identical.
“Why then will your Lordship, deny Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the chance to be transferred to no less than any ‘manageable’ hospital in Abuja somewhat than subjecting him to that poorly-equipped DSS well being middle, the identical setting and identical folks that saved him in that situation?
“In one of many court docket sittings, you talked about that MNK needs to be alive and wholesome to face for his case. What modified, Your Lordship? Why is MNK’s failing well being not being taken severely? Does his life not matter to you? I make daring to say that Nnamdi Kanu has been gravely victimized for too lengthy.”
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