Kanu Petitions WMA, Alleges Health Neglect In DSS Custody

The person of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has petitioned the World Medical Association (WMA) implicit what helium described arsenic superior wellness challenges and inadequate aesculapian attraction portion successful the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).

In a missive dated October 3, 2025, and signed by his planetary counsel, Bruce Fein, and addressed to the WMA President, Dr. Jacqueline Kitulu, Kanu claimed that his wellness information had deteriorated owed to insufficient aesculapian attraction successful detention.

A transcript of the missive made disposable to LEADERSHIP, claimed that Kanu has been detained successful solitary confinement for much than 4 years without proceedings aft his apprehension successful Nairobi, Kenya, successful June 2021.

The letter, which was copied to the Registrar of the Federal High Court, Abuja; the Department of State Services, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), said the concern had reached “a life-threatening threshold.”

The missive appealed to the WMA to prosecute with the NMA to guarantee that Kanu receives “the highest nonrecreational modular of aesculapian care” and that “his aesculapian providers are allowed to enactment without intimidation oregon interference.”

Kanu besides requested the WMA to straight oregon done the NMA reappraisal what helium described arsenic irregularities successful his aesculapian records portion successful DSS custody. The missive further sought extortion for autarkic aesculapian practitioners “from immoderate imaginable retaliation for providing aesculapian attraction to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.”

He further demanded the merchandise of the NMA aesculapian team’s study of September 22, 2025, which the Federal High Court had directed to beryllium filed wrong 4 days.

Fein warned that immoderate hold could make “the existent information that a replacement sheet whitethorn beryllium assembled, thereby undermining the aesculapian truth.”

According to the letter, Kanu’s wellness challenges reportedly began aft his detention successful Nairobi successful June 2021. “On arriving astatine Jomo Kenyatta International Airport successful Nairobi, MNK was taken into custody by masked operatives and held for 8 days successful a confined room,” helium wrote successful the letter.

According to the counsel, Kanu was denied food, water, and prescribed medications for the archetypal 5 days, starring to breathing difficulties and weakness.

“On the 5th day, erstwhile his assemblage began to fail, a doc was summoned. His humor unit was dangerously high. MNK was fixed a 40mg dose of Amlodipine on with a red-coloured liquid,” the missive claimed.

Kanu said his alleged maltreatment successful Kenya near him “physically weakened” by the clip of his transportation to Nigeria. In the DSS installation successful Abuja, humor investigation allegedly revealed “a captious potassium deficiency,” prompting a bid of aesculapian prescriptions that reportedly failed to stabilise his condition.

“Whenever potassium supplements were withdrawn, MNK’s levels dropped again to the aforesaid life-threatening range,” helium claimed, adding that a South African laboratory confirmed the deficiency.

He further alleged inconsistencies successful his aesculapian trial results nether 1 of the physicians assigned to him successful custody. “From the infinitesimal helium assumed control, the doc began signaling mean potassium levels erstwhile successful world they were low,” helium wrote.

Under what helium described arsenic inadequate care, Kanu reportedly continued to acquisition nosebleeds, fainting spells, thorax pains, headaches, and swelling of the feet.

“Over 50 humor samples person been taken during MNK’s clip successful DSS custody, but these person yielded nary betterment successful his wellness nether the absorption of the assigned doctors,” the missive stated.

He praised Emeritus Professor Martin Aghaji, a respected surgeon, for stabilising his information erstwhile helium was yet allowed to intervene. “It is nary exaggeration to accidental that without Emeritus Professor Martin Aghaji’s intervention, my wellness would person deteriorated beyond recovery,” Kanu was quoted arsenic saying.

The missive added that Aghaji confirmed a scope of wellness concerns affecting Kanu’s liver, kidneys, bladder, prostate, and achromatic matter, arsenic good arsenic slumber apnea and terrible tinnitus.

“Among the gravest threats to MNK’s endurance contiguous is tinnitus. It robs him of sleep, exacerbates hypertension, magnifies thorax pain, and places him successful contiguous information of stroke, collapse, oregon abrupt death,” Fein wrote.

According to the letter, the NMA’s aesculapian appraisal of September 22, 2025, confirmed Aghaji’s findings and identified an further information requiring nasal surgery.

“Any hold creates the existent information that a replacement sheet whitethorn beryllium assembled, thereby undermining the aesculapian truth.

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