Kanu Demands NMA Release Health Report To Court

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has demanded the immediate release of the 22nd September, 2025 medical report conducted on him by the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) to the Federal High Court, Abuja.

Kanu, in the letter addressed to the President of NMA, entitled, “Grave Concerns Regarding My Medical Treatment and Health Management In DSS Custody — Request For Urgent Intervention, Protection of Independent Practitioners and Immediate Release Of NMA Medical Assessment Report”, urged the NMA to act with urgency and integrity “to protect both my life and the ethical standing of the medical profession in Nigeria”.

He claimed that his health had been compromised “further by inconsistent, falsified, and sometimes outright negligent medical practices within Nigeria”. He called on the NMA to also investigate and address the manipulation of his medical records in the DSS custody.

Kanu also wants the association to “recognize and respond to the grave risks posed by his untreated conditions, especially tinnitus-induced sleep deprivation, which continues to endanger my
life”.

He claimed in the letter dated 29th September, 2025, that he was tortured when he was arrested in Kenya and brought to Nigeria in 2021, noting that he had been passing through the trauma since then.

According to him, “I was violently
abducted by masked operatives, manhandled, and dragged into captivity. For eight days, I was chained by the leg to a wall in a pitch-dark, windowless room. On the very first day, my head was slammed against the edge of a car door, resulting in an open wound that bled onto my clothing. The pain was sharp, my vision blurred, and dizziness set in almost immediately.

“For the first five days, I was denied even the basic essentials of life: no food, no water, and none of my long-prescribed medications. This deprivation nearly suffocated me, producing severe difficulty in breathing and overwhelming
weakness. On the fifth day, when my body began to fail, a doctor was summoned. My blood
pressure was found to be dangerously high, and I was given a 40mg dose of Amlodipine along with a strange red wine coloured liquid. Soon after, a cardiologist performed an ECG examination, but its results were never disclosed to me. I was treated as an object, not as a patient.”

He said upon his rendition to Nigeria from Kenya, he was placed on 10mg Amlodipine and a diuretic at the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA) facility in Abuja.

He continued, “Within days, I was moved to the DSS detention facility. Blood analysis there revealed a life-threatening potassium deficiency – my levels had collapsed to life
ending 1.9 mmol/L. I was then placed on Potassium supplements;
Amlodipine 10mg/Valsartan 160mg; Eplerenone 50mg; Bisoprolol 5mg (later increased to 10mg).

“It quickly became clear that whenever potassium supplements were withdrawn, my levels plummeted again to the same life-threatening range. At one stage, the
DSS went so far as to send my blood samples to South Africa for testing, which confirmed severe potassium depletion but gave no explanation for its cause. Rather than pursue the matter, the DSS dismissed the honest doctor who had recommended further investigations and replaced him with Dr Nasiru Mohammed.”

Kanu alleged that from the moment Dr Mohammed assumed control, issues about his health began to be falsified. “My test results recorded normal potassium levels when in reality they were dangerously low. When challenged as to why a potassium-sparing drug like
Eplerenone was still prescribed if my potassium was supposedly normal, he provided no medical justification.”

He complained that his personal physician was barred from accessing him. “This exclusion
lasted until the intervention o f Emeritus Professor Martin Aghaji, a globally respected surgeon and medical teacher. It was his timely intervention that saved me from imminent collapse.”

According to him, Professor Aghaji confirmed and documented broader systemic health problems, including “liver, pancreas, kidney, bladder, prostate, and white matter disease; sleep apnea, and tinnitus – the constant internal “chirping” sound in my ears that often makes sleep impossible still persists and making my life unbearable”.

He regretted that instead of supporting Prof Aghaji, the DSS had allegedly subjected him “to the same pattern of intimidation used against Dr Cfine, his personal physician.

Quoting him, “Among the gravest threats to my survival today is tinnitus. The incessant chirping in my ears is more than a nuisance:
It robs me of sleep, sometimes making rest completely impossible; it exacerbates my hypertension; it magnifies chest pain, fainting risks, and psychological strain; it undermines my body’s natural capacity t o heal.”

According to him, DSS doctors once proposed to drain fluid from his inner ear but abandoned it, adding that, “Sleep deprivation, when combined with existing hypertension, organ strain, and
potassium instability, places me in immediate danger o f stroke, collapse, or sudden death.”

He further revealed that NMA had examined him as directed by the Attorney-General of the Federation. “Their findings fully corroborated the diagnoses made by Emeritus Professor Martin Aghaji and identified yet another condition requiring nasal surgery. The Federal High Court has ordered that the report of this assessment be submitted within four days. I therefore formally demand the immediate release of this report.”

Kanu requested the protection of the role of Emeritus Professor Martin Aghaji as his physician of choice; investigate the conduct of Dr Nasiru Mohammed and other DSS-appointed doctors for falsification of results.