Kanu Needs Urgent ‘Heart Surgery’, Says Counsel

Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), the primary counsel for the imprisoned Indigenous People of Biafra leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has stated that Kanu may require “urgent heart surgery” due to a potassium deficiency in his circulation.

This happened as he and his group of over 18 lawyers signed Order 34, a notice of application for an Order of Judicial Review, in the Abuja Judicial Division of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

A court order dated December 20, 2022, known as suit no. FHC/ABJ/CS/2341/2022, sought to compel the State Security Service to allow Kanu “unrestricted access” to his doctors so they could conduct a “independent examination of his current deteriorating health condition,” as the Federal High Court had previously directed on October 21, 2021.

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Kanu’s medical records from June 29, 2021, to the present, including but not limited to admission records, medical and clinical records, nursing notes, observation charts and documentation during treatment or stay in the hospital, laboratory test results, pharmaceutical records, radiological scan, images and reports, blood transfusion records, and records of his physiotherapy and rehabilitative treatment, were also requested by Ozekhome in his request to the court for permission to give Kanu this right.

The report went on to describe Kanu’s “abduction” from Kenya and how he was “subjected to different forms of cruel abuse and inhuman treatment and degradation, all of which deteriorated his health condition.”

The main counsel also mentioned that Kanu had a slight cardiac attack before to being “smuggled” back into Nigeria, and that since that time, his health has been worse rather than better.

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He said, “That various medical personnel that attended to the Applicant whilst in custody had repeatedly informed him that they could not ascertain the reason for the depletion of potassium in the applicant’s blood.

“That on various occasions, the medical personnel brought by the respondents took the applicant’s blood sample and allegedly transported same to South Africa for screening; and up till the present, there is no end in sight for their trial-and-error medicare.”