Sister to the arrowhead of the Biafran agitation, Nnamdi Kanu has lamented on the poor physical appearance of her brother due to the alleged maltreatment in the hands of the operatives of the DSS.
Nnamdi Kanu outside the Abuja magistrate court
Princess Chinwe Kanu, the younger sister of detained Director of Radio Biafra and leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has raised the alarm over the poor health condition of her elder brother, saying that personnel of the Department of State Services (DSS) want to kill him in detention, according to the Daily Sun.
Speaking exclusively to a correspondent at her father’s compound in Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State, Princess Kanu said what she saw of her elder brother when she attended his trial in Abuja on Monday made her to conclude that the DSS wants to kill him while in their custody.
“Honestly, the way they are going about this case I’m not comfortable with it because when I saw my brother, he looked like a shadow of his former self. He looked pale and anaemic and he has physical pain as a result of torture, starvation and the hardship he is going through in the hands of the DSS operatives.
“After the court session, when he (Nnamdi) came out, as the IPOB members and the Biafrans were outside the gate while some were in the court premises hailing him and chanting: 'Nnamdi, Nnamdi ka anyi ga-eso', the way the DSS man roughhandled him, he almost fell down. I don’t know what his reasons were, but I’m happy Nnamdi never challenged him," she alleged.
She said the DSS should know that her brother was not a criminal, but only a prisoner of conscience.
“They held him so tight that he screamed and I felt bad. Because his health is deteriorating by the day, I am calling on rights activists, the international crime code, the Amnesty International, the UN and the British commission to come and rescue their citizen in the hands of the DSS. They are so mean and wicked, they will kill him if care is not taken”, she pleaded.