Get Guardian on GoogleThe Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has set up a seven-member team of experts to ascertain the actual health status of the detained self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Lawyer to the Department of State Services (DSS) and prosecuting lawyer in Kanu’s ongoing terrorism trial, Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), disclosed this at the resumed hearing in the case on Friday.
Awomolo said the Federal Government chose to invite the NMA to intervene in the matter in view of conflicting information about Kanu’s actual state of health.
He spoke while opposing the application by Kanu, in which he (Kanu) is seeking to be taken to the National Hospital in Abuja for medical attention.
Awomolo prayed the court to grant a week’s adjournment to enable the NMA team to submit its report.
As against the claim by Kanu’s lawyer, Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), that his client’s health was seriously threatened, Awomolo argued otherwise, insisting that nothing was unusual about Kanu’s complaint in relation to his health.
Justice James Omotosho has stood down proceedings to write a ruling on whether or not Kanu should be taken to the National Hospital as he requested in his application.
