The family of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused the Department of State Services (DSS) of barring him from receiving visitors.
Emmanuel Kanu, the brother of Nnamdi Kanu, made the plea recently, asserting that the DSS is preventing anyone from visiting the IPOB leader, ostensibly to conceal the true extent of his deteriorating health.
Nnamdi Kanu has been held in DSS custody in Abuja, despite multiple court orders demanding his release.
This detention followed his contentious rearrest in Kenya and his subsequent extradition to Nigeria in June 2021.
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In response to the court orders, an Abuja Federal High Court had ordered the security agency to allow Nnamdi Kanu regular access to his family members and legal counsel, mandating twice-weekly visitation rights.
Regrettably, Emmanuel Kanu has expressed his distress at the DSS’s noncompliance with these court orders, highlighting the suspicious nature of their actions in the ongoing custody of the IPOB leader.
“DSS is stopping my brother’s visitors from seeing him, which is another flagrant disregard of a subsisting court order and their effort to conceal my brother’s deteriorating health condition.
“For me, DSS has become a private security company where the authority manages it as his personal family business. I’m yet to know why my brother is still currently in detention against court orders,” he told newsmen.