Human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome(SAN), who is the lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that his client\u2019s sight had deteriorated.\n\n
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\nOzekhome told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, that Kanu, who is currently in custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, may go blind if nothing was urgently done to restore his sight.\n
The senior lawyer, who recently took over the defence team of the embattled IPOB leader, said his client\u2019s pair of eyeglasses was confiscated in 2015, when he was initially arrested by DSS operatives, following his return to Nigeria from the United Kingdom.\n
He equally told the court that a new pair that Kanu bought was also seized from him during his extraordinary rendition from Kenya.\n
Besides, Ozekhome bemoaned that despite an express order of the court, the DSS declined to allow the IPOB leader to have a change of clothing.\n
He alleged that the security agency refused to allow Kanu to receive new clothes that were brought to him by his younger brother, Emmanuel.\n
\u201cMy Lord will still see the defendant in the same uniform which my lord warned against in the last proceedings.\n
\u201cIt will be recalled that they had on that day alleged that he said that he preferred to wear the same cloth because it is designers.\n
\u201cHowever, since that time, the younger brother of the defendant, his lawyer and sister have gone three times with materials for him to change, but they refused collecting them.\n
\u201cSo bad was it that Ejiofor had to call the Director of Legal Services and complained to him.\n
\u201cThe Director told him that he would do something about it, that he would contact the Director of Operations to ensure that the order was carried out.\n
\u201cBut since then, nothing has been done. They have not allowed him to change his clothes.\u201d\n
On the issue of Kanu\u2019s sight, Ozekhome said: \u201cMy lord, since 2015, his glasses were taken from him.\n
\u201cThe one he wore before his extraordinary rendition from Kenya was also taken from him.\n
\u201cTill now, he does not have glasses to wear and his sight is deteriorating.\n
\u201cMy Lord we do not want the Defendant to go blind, that is why we have decided to bring it to the attention of the court.\u201d\n
Meanwhile, after she had listened to Ozekhome, trial Justice Binta Nyako said she would look into the matter.\n
Source:- Vanguard\n\n\n
Human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome(SAN), who is the lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that his client\u2019s sight had deteriorated. 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