You Lied, Kanu Not Enjoying Full Rights In Custody, Lawyer Tells DSS

Lawyer for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, Ifeanyi Ejiorfor, has accused the Department of State Services(DSS) of lying about the state of his client in its custody.

There have been claims and counter claims regarding the wellbeing of Nnamdi Kanu who is in the custody of the Department of State Service (DSS).

But Kanu’s main lawyer, IEjiofor, insisted on Wednesday that the DSS is pushing wrong narrative about his client’s fundamental right even in detention.

In a Fundamental right suit filed before the Federal High Court, Abuja, by Maxwell Okpara on Monday, Kanu’s brother, Emmanuel, had sworn to an affidavit, stating that when he visited him on December 9, he told him that he was confined in a solitary place and have not been attended to by a medical practitioner of his choice.

But in a press briefing on Tuesday, the DSS Spokesperson, P.N Afunanya, said that Kanu was not in any way maltreated in custody and that he enjoys full luxury in the agency’s holding facility that is incomparable to any of its type anywhere in the country.

He added that Kanu has access to the best medical care.

However, Ejiofor stated that the DSS could not have stated the true position of things when it failed to tell the world if Kanu was solitarily confined or not.

“From Mr. Afunanya’s analysis, it is evident that he is not even familiar with the extant provisions of the Anti-Torture Act 2017, a law every law enforcement official/personnel have sworn to protect.

“Our Client – Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu need not be subjected to daily beatings and flogging by the personnel of the DSS before he can be qualified as being tortured – No!

“Section 2(b)(iv) of the Anti-Torture Act 2017, defined torture to include:

“(b) Mental or psychological torture, which is understood as referring to such cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment calculated to affect or confuse the mind or undermine a person’s dignity and morale, such as- …

(iv) Confinement in solitary cells against their will or without prejudice to their security.

“This very law Mr. Afunanya swore to protect also prescribes punishment of 25 years imprisonment upon conviction for personnel of any of the Security Agency found to be in breach of this Law

“We were unable to find in any place throughout his statement where Mr. Afunanya clearly denied the fact that our Client – Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not subjected to 23 hours daily solitary confinement.,” Ejiofor stated via his Facebook page.

He also countered Afunanya regarding the medical care he said the DSS was given to his client, adding that his blood sample has been drawn over 21 times for laboratory examinations but no solution to improving his health condition is in view.

Afunanya had also denied not allowing Kanu to change his clothes since his detention in June but Ejiofor challenged the DSS to tell the world why his client has been appearing with same Fendi cloth since his rearraignment.