The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has sued the Department of State Security Service, DSS over allegations of gross violation of his fundamental human rights, Igbere TV has learnt.
Nnamdi Kanu is being held by the DSS at its headquarters in Abuja, after the Nigerian government extradited him from Kenya in June this year, an action his lawyers termed “abduction.”
He is standing trial on charges bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism before a federal court in Abuja.
Maxwell Opara, one of Mr Kanu’s lawyers, told journalists on Monday that, “a medical doctor engaged by the SSS has extracted Nnamdi Kanu’s blood samples over 21 times.”
In the new suit, Mr Opara said despite a subsisting order by the trial judge, Binta Nyako, compelling the spy agency to allow Mr Kanu change his clothes and practice his Jewish faith, the SSS flagrantly ignored the orders.
The Director-General of the SSS, Yusuf Bichi, and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, were listed as Respondents in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1585/21.
Mr Opara, while briefing reporters on Monday, recounted his last visit to the SSS detention facility, where his client reportedly complained “bitterly” about the doctor extracting his blood, whom he suspected to be a “quack.”
“Nnamdi Kanu said his demand for the security agency to grant him access to his medical record was repeatedly refused,” Mr Opara said.
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