Aloy Ejimakor special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has fallen ill in Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, just 24 hours after the presiding magistrate, Abubakar Umar Sai’id, declined to endorse the bail bond for his release.
Sources from SaharaReporters indicate that Ejimakor was unable to meet with his colleague, Barrister Maxwell Opara, during the scheduled legal visitation at the facility.
According to his account, Ejimakor was incapacitated unable to sit upright or stand while nurses at Kuje Correctional Centre attended to him. Medical personnel are reportedly considering transferring him to a hospital for urgent care.
Ejimakor was among 13 individuals arrested on Monday during the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest, including Kanu’s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu. The group was allegedly tear-gassed, be+ten, and held overnight in a SARS unit known as “Abattoir” before being transferred to the CID headquarters.
On the following day they were brought before the Kuje Magistrate’s Court without their lawyer present and remanded. Although bail was granted the next day by Magistrate Sai’id, the bond was neither signed nor processed for release.
Ejimakor’s condition is described as “deteriorating fast” by prison staff and legal observers have raised alarm over the delay in medical intervention and the unfolding legal proceedings.
