Detained leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has urged the Department of State Services (DSS) to grant his new set of doctors access to him.

In a letter to the Director General of the service, Yusuf Bichi, through the Legal Department, Kanu’s lead counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), in a June 16 letter, said the doctors would visit the detainee today.

A member of Kanu’s legal team gave a copy of the letter to The Nation yesterday.

It reads: “At our joint meeting with the Director of the Legal Department and the in-house medical personnel of the service on June 3, it was agreed that our client’s medical doctor should be permitted to see him for an initial medical review before proceeding with the surgical procedure on his left ear at a date to be agreed upon.

“Our client’s known medical doctor, Dr. Cfine Okorochukwu, is out of the country, hence the need to introduce new medical personnel of his choice.

“The said medical doctors need to personally meet with our client for a formal engagement since he would be meeting them for the first time.

“It will be after this initial interface with our client that the doctors will revert to us before a date is scheduled for a formal meeting for the medical review with your in-house medical doctors.

“It is against the backdrop of the foregoing that we respectfully request that doctors Uche Ukwuije and David Obasi Ukoha be allowed access to our client for a formal engagement meeting.

“The aforementioned doctors have confirmed their availability for the visit on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 10 a.m.”

Kanu’s pending case before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja will also come up today for a hearing on an application for an order of mandamus.

He was charged with terrorism but the Court of Appeal in Abuja freed him after agreeing that his extraordinary rendition from Kenya was illegal.

The appellate court, last October, granted the Federal Government’s application for a stay of execution pending the determination of its appeal at the Supreme Court.

The Court of Appeal faulted how Kanu was abducted from Kenya last June to face terrorism charges.

It held that the extraordinary rendition Federal Government deployed broke local and international laws. (The Nation: Text, Excluding Headline)

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