The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the Department of State Services, DSS, to grant the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, access to his medical records.
Justice Binta Nyako, who gave the order, said the objections the security agency raised against Kanu’s request lacked merit.
She held that Kanu was constitutionally entitled to have access to both the records he requested for and the medical doctors of his choice.
However, Justice Nyako held that the independent medical examination of Kanu by his personal physicians should be supervised by the DSS, with the entire process recorded and sealed for security purposes.
The judgement followed a suit that the embattled IPOB leader filed through his team of lawyers led by Prof. Mike Ozekhome, SAN.
Specifically, Kanu, had in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/ 2341/2022, said he would need his doctors to conduct an independent examination to ascertain his actual state of health.
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