Nnamdi Kanu Going Blind, Ozekhome Tells Court

Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), counsel to the proscribed Indegeneous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), has expressed concern that the detained leader of the IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu’s, vision has deteriorated.

Kanu, who is currently in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), may go blind if nothing is done urgently to restore his sight, Ozekhome told a Federal High Court in Abuja.

He told Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako that his client’s eyeglasses were taken from him in 2015, when he was arrested by DSS operatives after returning to Nigeria from the United Kingdom.

He also told the court that a new pair of shoes Kanu had purchased had been seized during his extradition from Kenya.
Ozekhome said despite an express order of the court, the DSS declined to allow the IPOB leader to have a change of clothing.

He alleged that the secret police refused to allow Kanu to receive new clothes that were brought to him by his younger brother, Emmanuel.

“My Lord will still see the defendant in the same uniform which my Lord warned against in the last proceedings.
“It will be recalled that they had on that day alleged that he said that he preferred to wear the same cloth because it is designers.

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“However, since that time, the younger brother of the defendant, his lawyer and sister have gone three times with materials for him to change, but they refused collecting them.

“So bad was it that Ejiofor had to call the Director of Legal Services and complained to him,” Ozekhome stated.