Nnamdi Kanu says he was picked, detained, tortured by Kenyan security agents before he was handed to the Nigerian officials that ferried home, where is set to begin facing trial.
Kanu’s predicament is according to his lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who met him in the detention facility of the Department of State Services (DSS), where he is being kept before his four years old trial re-commences.
The lawyer’s statement posted on Facebook read:
“Update on meeting with MNK today, 2nd July 2021:
“My Client – Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was actually abducted by accursed Kenya’s Special Police Force on the 18th of June 2021 at their International Airport and consequently taken to an undisclosed residence under dehumanizing conditions.
“He was tortured and subjected to all forms of inhuman treatment which worsened his health condition. *He was illegally detained for eight (8) good DAYS in Kenya* before being transferred to their Nigerian counterpart.
“He was purportedly investigated on a bogus charge while in their custody, ostensibly, awaiting to be handed over after their findings proved him innocent of all the spurious allegations. They later beckoned on their Nigerian Counterpart to take over.
“Kenyan Government was deeply involved in the abduction, detention, and ill-treatment of my Client before the illegal handover to their Nigerian counterpart.
“A scan of his heart showed that the heart has enlarged by 13% due to the dehumanizing treatment meted to him. There will be a need for immediate proper medical examination and attention for him.
“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu conveyed his goodwill message to all IPOB family members worldwide and craved your unrelentless prayers.
“We are going back to the Court for the needful. Other details cannot be entertained here.
“His fortified legal team will address these infractions at the proper forum as we progress. Other details on our legal strategy, may not be made public.”
In another statement, South-East based advocacy group, Intersociety, lampooned the Uhuru Kenyatta Presidency for its role in Kanu’s arrest and deportation.
It said, “More disclosures arising from the meeting between Barr Ifanyichukwu Ejiofor, the Lead Counsel to the Leader of IPOB and the Leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu are nothing short of an example of notoriety in international roguery earned by the Kenyan outgoing Government of Uhuru Kenyatta. The disclosures have shamed the outgoing Kenyan Government and laid to rest any further doubt as to the despicable roles played by the Government of Kenya in the criminal arrest on its soil and forceful extraction of the IPOB Leader back to Nigeria. We at Intersociety are not surprised at perfidious lies internationally told by the Kenyan Government.
“The Uhuru Kenyatta and William Huto Government … had since their emergence in April 2013 been marked with local and international corporate image bastardisation and ruination. The present Kenyan Government is also lacking in character, due process and rule of law.”