Mr Chijindu Offor, the first cousin of Nnamdi Kanu, detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has raised concern over his health and urgent need for medical attention.
Offor, who is pleading with the Nigerian government to grant Kanu access to his personal physicians, has raised fears that his ill health may lead to his death.
He said that the Department of State Services DSS, where the IPOB leader is currently detained “lacks the needed facilities to handle his health challenges”, hence the compelling need to allow him access to his private doctors “to properly take care of him”.
Kanu’s cousin warned that the IPOB leader’s medical condition could worsen if not properly managed by experts, a sad development he said could even result to his death.
He said that Kanu’s death in custody would serve Nigeria no good but worsen matters for the country as the aftermath of such tragedy will be too enormous to handle.
He therefore, urged the federal government to heed the appeals from various quarters to engage Kanu in dialogue with a view to resolving the cause of the growing agitation for self determination.
According to him, only dialogue and meaningful engagement of the necessary stakeholders will resolve the various agitations for self determination in the country.
Offor urged leaders of the country to stop pretending and convene a round table discuss where the various genuine national questions will be frankly addressed to save Nigeria from the precipice.
He said that intimidation and use of brute force by government could not quail the growing agitation for self determination by different regions in the country which he said was as a result of the general disenchanted in the land.
According to him, the earlier government listens to the voice of the masses the better for the country, “otherwise the country will only be postponing the doomsday.”
