Kanu Writes World Medical Association Over Health Conditions In DSS Custody

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

In a missive dated October 3, 2025, and signed by Kanu’sinternational counsel, Bruce Fein, connected his behalf 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 stated that, Kanu has been detained successful a Nigerian installation successful solitary confinement for much than 4 years without a 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.”

It 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, straight oregon done the NMA, to 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 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.

He 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.

The missive said helium was allegedly denied food, water, and prescribed medications for the archetypal 5 days, starring to breathing difficulties and weakness, allegation the DSS could beryllium reached for remark arsenic it has nary spokesman.

“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-colouredliquid,” the missive stated.

Kanu said his attraction 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 stabilize 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 stabilizing 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 Professor 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.

He said slumber deprivation combined with existing hypertension, organ strain, and potassium instability “places MNK successful contiguous information of stroke, collapse, oregon abrupt death.”

According to the letter, the NMA’s medica...