Biafra: DSS men want to kill Nnamdi Kanu in detention –Sister raises alarm
Princess Chinwe Kanu, Nnamdi Kanu’s younger
sister has raised alarm over the health condition of
her elder brother, Director of Radio Biafra and
leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB),
Nnamdi Kanu, saying that personnel of the
Department of State Services (DSS) want to kill him
in detention.
Princess Kanu revealed this at her
father’s compound in Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia
State, She said what she saw of her elder brother
when she attended his trial in Abuja on Monday
made her to conclude that the DSS wants to kill
him while in their custody.
“Honestly, the way they are going about this case
I’m not comfortable with it because when I saw my
brother, he looked like a shadow of his former self.
He looked pale and anaemic and he has physical
pain as a result of torture, starvation and the
hardship he is going through in the hands of the
DSS operatives,” she alleged.
“After the court session, when he (Nnamdi) came
out, as the IPOB members and the Biafrans were
outside the gate while some were in the court
premises hailing him and chanting: “Nnamdi,
Nnamdi ka anyi ga-eso”, the way the DSS man
roughhandled him, he almost fell down. I don’t
know what his reasons were, but I’m happy Nnamdi
never challenged him.
She lamented that DSS should know that her
brother was not a criminal, but only a prisoner of
conscience,
“They held him so tight that he screamed and I felt
bad. Because his health is deteriorating by the day,
I am calling on rights activists, the international
crime code, the Amnesty International, the UN and
the British commission to come and rescue their
citizen in the hands of the DSS. They are so mean
and wicked, they will kill him if care is not taken”,
she pleaded.
She expressed joy and happiness that she saw her
brother in high spirits inside the courtroom though
she said the family was not allowed to enter if not
for the intervention of their lawyer, Princess Kanu
said she has confidence that God will set the
director of Radio Biafra free in the next adjourned
date.
“I have confidence in what Eze Chukwuokike
Abiama (God) will do because He is not a man that
He will lie neither is He a man that He can
disappoint us or deceive us and because His word
is yea and Amen and because He is the one that
brought His son out, He will not abandon or leave
him that’s what I believe in,” Kanu said.
Princess Kanu said it was wrong for the Federal
Government to have charged his brother with
terrorism, noting that this was the height of
tyranny. “Will someone help tell President
Muhammadu Buhari that this is a democratic
dispensation, not autocratic government where he
was the General?
She said charging Nnamdi with terrorism means
equating him with Boko Haram members, saying it
was the height of injustice and a way to continue
in humiliating and assaulting an unarmed civilian
which she said was not the right thing to do.