Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN.
Chief Mike Ozekhome, the lead counsel to detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has said that Kanu may need “urgent heart surgery” for lack of potassium in his bloodstream.
For that, he and his team of over 18 lawyers have signed a notice of application for an Order of Judicial Review (Order 34) in the Federal High Court, Abuja, to compel the State Security Services, DSS to grant Kanu "unhindered access" to his medical doctors to conduct an "independent examination of his present deteriorating health condition" as earlier ordered by the Federal High Court on October 21, 2021.
In the order, dated December 20, 2022,
with suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/2341/2022,
Ozekhome also requested the court to grant Kanu permission to compel the DSS to provide him with “all his medical records from June 29, 2021, to the present, including but not limited to the admission records, medical and clinical records, nursing notes, observation charts and documentation during treatment or stay in the hospital, laboratory test results, pharmaceutical records, radiological scan, images and reports, blood transfusion records and physiotherapy and rehabilitative treatment records”, among others.
The document further stated that Kanu's "abduction" from Kenya and how he was "subjected to various forms of brutal torture and inhuman treatment and degradation of all worsened his health condition.
Ozekhome also noted that Kanu suffered a mild cardiac arrest before he was "smuggled" back into Nigeria, adding that his health condition has continued to deteriorate since then.
Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB leader.
“That various medical personnel that attended to the Applicant whilst in custody had repeatedly informed him that they could not ascertain the reason for the depletion of potassium in the applicant’s blood.
“That on various occasions, the medical personnel brought by the respondents took the applicant’s blood sample and allegedly transported same to South Africa for screening; and up till the present, there is no end in sight for their trial-and-error medicare.”
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