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BY SUNNY A. DAVID
A Human Rights Activist, Dede Uzor A. Uzor has called on the Federal Government to stop playing politics with the present health condition of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who has been in DSS detention for about two years.
Dede Uzor who is the Executive Director, Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders (HURIDE) and South East Chairman, Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) told journalists in Onitsha on Friday that the continued detention of the IPOB leader was against his fundamental Human Rights which is protected by the Nigerian Constitution.
According to the vibrant human rights activist, ”Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been in detention even when competent courts of the land had ordered for his release.
“His continued detention by DSS on the orders of the Federal Government is a flagrant disobedience to the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
He disclosed that the present health condition of the IPOB leader has taken a worrisome dimension now that it has been reported by his lawyer that a tuberculosis patient has been brought in to share the same cell with Nnamdi Kanu.
Dede Uzor lamented that the plan was hatched in order to infect the IPOB leader with the deadly disease and his subsequent death from the highly contagious disease.
The Human Rights Activist urged all human rights activist, the European Union, UN, the media and other international organisations to pressurise the Federal Government to order unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu immediately.
While recounting the sufferings experienced by the IPOB leader, he said that Kanu has continued to be in detention when his parents died and should be granted freedom as a Nigerian citizen to enjoy his fundamental human rights.
Dede Uzor concluded that his contemporaries like Sunday Igboho and even Asari Dokubo who publicly brandished sophisticated arms against the government had since been granted freedom by the Federal Government.
