Kanu voiced concerns about the prison facility’s TB spread and the detainee’s relocation to his cell block without medical assistance.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wants Nnamdi Kanu released immediately due to a tuberculosis epidemic at the Directorate of State Services (DSS) prison facility in Abuja.
Kanu voiced concerns about the prison facility’s TB spread and the detainee’s relocation to his cell block without medical assistance.
IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said on Thursday that the DSS detained the tuberculosis-infected individual near Kanu’s cell to infect him.
IPOB warned that harming him would ruin Nigeria and everything it symbolizes.
IPOB alleged the jailed TB patient had infected several DSS inmates and that the facility “had no access to sunshine and lacks sufficient ventilation,” allowing the disease to spread quickly.
We understand that many detainees are afflicted with the virus, and DSS personnel are not treating them. The Abuja DSS prison facility will have a TB epidemic unless immediate action is taken.
“We are calling on the Red Cross Society and World Health Organization to visit the Abuja DSS facility and provide objective, unbiased assessments and treatment suggestions.”
It warned that if anything happened to Nnamdi Kanu, the DSS and the Nigerian government would see what IPOB could do to the country.
The separatist group urged the Red Cross Society, Amnesty International Nigeria, the World Health Organization, and other health organizations to pressure the government to release Kanu under the Appellate Court’s orders.
“We will no longer appeal to any organization if our leader is harmed while unlawfully imprisoned in DSS solitary confinement.” “Those who make peaceful opposition impossible make violent resistance an option,” it said.
