While arrested Boko Haram husband gets to meet the President, Kanu details inhuman treatment in custody
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu is demanding an order for his release and $800million in damages against the Federal Republic of Nigeria for “gross violation of his human rights”. He made this prayer at the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS Court).
He avers that he has been unlawfully detained since October 14, 2015. Though he admitted before the court that he is the founder of IPOB, he said the body was duly registered in over 30 countries of the world. He also informed the court that Radio Biafra Limited was duly registered under the laws of the United Kingdom, specifically under the Companies Act, 2006, and certified by the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales.
Kanu told the court why he came to Nigeria. He said that he came to Nigeria to visit his parents and also to reunite with his pregnant wife, who was expected to give birth through caesarean in the UK.
He then detailed how he was wrongly treated in custody. Saying that his legs and hands were chained by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS while he was in their detention facility. He called the treatment “the worst dehumanisation, degrading treatment and torture.”
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