• Kanu urges NMA to release health report on him to court
The Igbo apex group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, said that the abandonment of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was not merely a matter of oversight but a glaring betrayal of their responsibilities by Igbo leaders.
In a statement in Abakaliki, the Deputy President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, noted that the only impediment to Kanu’s freedom is the absence of sincere assurances from Igbo leaders to President Bola Tinubu that Kanu would conduct himself with integrity after his release.
He accused South-East governors, Senators, House Representatives members and other influential Igbo leaders of not being prepared to take the necessary risks that would facilitate his release, urging them to emulate their counterparts from other regions that have even negotiated with bandits.
Isiguzoro further noted that while Igbo leaders were busy with their interests, the leadership of the South-West region rallied effectively to advocate for the release of Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, showcasing a united front in their pursuit of justice.
Meanwhile, Kanu has demanded the immediate release of the September 22, 2025, medical report conducted on him by the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) to the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Kanu, in a letter addressed to President of the association, entitled, “Grave Concerns Regarding My Medical Treatment and Health Management In DSS Custody — Request For Urgent Intervention, Protection of Independent Practitioners and Immediate Release of NMA Medical Assessment Report,” urged the NMA to act with urgency and integrity “to protect both my life and the ethical standing of the medical profession in Nigeria.”
He said that his health had been compromised “further by inconsistent, falsified, and sometimes outright negligent medical practices within Nigeria,”
He, therefore, called on the NMA to also investigate and address the manipulation of his medical records while in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).
Kanu also wanted the association to “recognise and respond to the grave risks posed by his untreated conditions, especially tinnitus-induced sleep deprivation, which continues to endanger my life.”
He claimed in the letter dated September 29, 2025, that he was tortured when he was arrested in Kenya and brought to Nigeria in 2021, noting that he had been passing through the trauma since then.
According to him, “I was violently abducted by masked operatives, manhandled, and dragged into captivity. For eight days, I was chained by the leg to a wall in a pitch-dark, windowless room.”
On the very first day, my head was slammed against the edge of a car door, resulting in an open wound that bled onto my clothing. The pain was sharp, my vision blurred, and dizziness set in almost immediately.
“For the first five days, I was denied even the basic essentials of life: no food, no water, and none of my long-prescribed medications. This deprivation nearly suffocated me, producing severe difficulty in breathing and overwhelming weakness. On the fifth day, when my body began to fail, a doctor was summoned. My blood pressure was found to be dangerously high, and I was given a 40mg dose of Amlodipine along with a strange, red wine coloured liquid. Soon after, a cardiologist performed an ECG examination, but its results were never disclosed to me. I was treated as an object, not as a patient.”
He said that upon his rendition to Nigeria from Kenya, he was placed on 10mg Amlodipine and a diuretic at the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA) facility in Abuja.
He continued, “Within days, I was moved to the DSS detention facility. Blood analysis there revealed a life-threatening potassium deficiency – my levels had collapsed to life-ending 1.9 mmol/L. I was then placed on Potassium supplements; Amlodipine 10mg/Valsartan 160mg; Eplerenone 50mg; Bisoprolol 5mg (later increased to 10mg).
“It quickly became clear that whenever potassium supplements were withdrawn, my levels plummeted again to the same life-threatening range. At one stage, the DSS went so far as to send my blood samples to South Africa for testing, which confirmed severe potassium depletion but gave no explanation for its cause. Rather than pursue the matter, the DSS dismissed the honest doctor who had recommended further investigations and replaced him with Dr Nasiru Mohammed.”
Kanu, however, alleged that from the moment Dr Mohammed assumed control, issues about his health began to be falsified, adding: “My test results recorded normal potassium levels when in reality they were dangerously low. When challenged as to why a potassium-sparing drug like Eplerenone was still prescribed if my potassium was supposedly normal, he provided no medical justification.”
He complained that his personal physician was barred from accessing him.
