BREAKING: Kanu may go blind, his sight deteriorating, Ozekhome tells court

 

Human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome(SAN), who is the lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that his client’s sight had deteriorated.

Ozekhome told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, that Kanu, who is currently in custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, may go blind if nothing was urgently done to restore his sight.

Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafran (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu on Wednesday complained bitterly that he was going blind in detention

Kanu told the court since his re-arrest, he had not been allowed to take reading glasses provided by his family.

The defendant who spoke through his lead counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN informed Justice Binta Nyako that his glasses brought to Kenya where he was arrested was damaged while being picked up.

He further claimed that the glasses he brought to Nigeria in 2015 when he was first arrested were seized by DSS and have not been released to him.

Kanu also complained that he had not been allowed to take clothes from his family, hence, he has been wearing same cloth since his re-arrest in June last year.

At the time of this report, Kanu is asking the court to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that the alleged offences were not committed in Nigeria.

He also claimed that no prima facie has been made against him by the federal government throughout the proof of evidence in support of the charges.