Nnamdi Kanu, the head of IPOB, needs emergency heart surgery

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), underwent heart surgery on Saturday to repair a valve, according to his attorney, Aloy Ejimakor.

He begged the federal government to release the imprisoned agitator so that he could receive medical treatment.

A tweet from Ejimakor on August 23, 2022, said that Kanu has a heart condition that Pink Rose Hospital Limited says is life-threatening.

The medical advice states, in part, “The patient requires immediate surgical (internal heart surgery) intervention for tricuspid valve (heart valve) replacement.”

Ejimakor said that the Nigerian government has known since August 2022 that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu needs surgery. He said this so there wouldn’t be any confusion.

“In addition to the court orders, this is sufficient to grant him parole or the right to independent medical treatment.” It is an accepted practice around the world.

Kanu was re-arrested on January 19 before Abuja’s Federal High Court’s Justice Binta Nyako.

He pleaded not guilty to the 15 terrorist charges brought against him by the Federal Government.

He requested that the court throw out or dismiss the charges in a preliminary objection, and the Court of Appeal agreed.

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In a decision on Kanu’s lawsuit for violations of his fundamental rights, the Umuahia High Court in Abia State awarded N1 billion in damages on the same day.

The claim against Kanu was that he made a broadcast “with intent to terrify the population” in which he “said that people will die and the whole world will come to a standstill.”

The Southeast was put on lockdown as a result of him allegedly delivering “a lethal threat” that anyone who disobeyed his order to stay at home should make a will.

Additionally, Kanu claimed to be a leader and member of IPOB, a group that is against the law in Nigeria and in violation of Section 16 of the 2013 Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act.

He told people to “hunt down and kill Nigerian security men and their families,” according to reports.

According to the Federal Government, Kanu gave IPOB members orders to “make bombs” and “damage public facilities.”

Additionally, he is accused of ordering the populace to “destroy Lagos’ public transportation infrastructure, resulting in significant economic damage to the government” on May 31, 2021.

The prosecution said that he “imported a radio transmitter known as Tram SOL into Nigeria and kept it in Ubullisiuzor in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, which you declared to be used household items.”

Section 1(2)(b) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, which is what the prosecution says is the law, says that the alleged crime is punishable.

Since his extradition from Kenya, Kanu has been in the DSS’s care.

(NATION)