By Nchetachi Chukwuajah
The family of the convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has decried his relocation from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja to Sokoto prison.
Kanu’s brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, said when his legal team went to visit him at the Abuja headquarters of the DSS, where he had been held all along, they were told he had been moved to Sokoto.
Emmanuel noted that with the development, the family is worried about the safety of the IPOB leader in a Sokoto prison.
He further alleged that Kanu’s relocation was a veiled plot to eliminate him by restricting his access to his personal physician.
“They have secretly relocated Nnamdi Kanu to Sokoto prison with the intention to kill him by denying him access to his personal physicians.
“Kanu is on special medication, which a private doctor is managing after his failed health. Now they want to go back to the old order of administering drugs to him. This is a plan to finally kill him, and we are opposed to it.
“Nigeria should not kill Nnamdi Kanu for seeking justice for his people. He committed no crime to warrant this torture,” he said.
Emmanuel also called on the international community to hold President Bola Tinubu and the Federal Government responsible should anything happen to the IPOB leader.
Recall that the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, November 20, sentenced Kanu to life imprisonment for counts 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, instead of a death sentence on the seven-count charge brought against him by the Federal Government.
On count 3, he was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment without fine, and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for count 7.
