Aloy Ejimakor, lawyer to embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has stated that his client is mentally traumatized.
The IPOB lawyer stated this during an interview with BBC Pidgin monitored by Politics Nigeria.
Recall on Tuesday 29, June 2021, Nigeria Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami broke the news that law enforcement agents have arrested Nnamdi Kanu. Later arraigned him to court the day the announcement was made.
Ejimakor who visited the IPOB leader at the Department of State Services (DSS) office on Wednesday, 14, July stated that “His state of mind is not as sound as it ought to be. While conversing with him, it was a bit difficult for him remembering the actual date they abducted him, I was surprised. He appeared like someone who has been mentally traumatized. Although he was not afraid, he was traumatized”.
He further stated that the IPOB Leader narrated to him how security forces arrested him in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya and how he was brought back to Nigeria.
Ejimakor said “Nnamdi Kanu entered Kenya around April this year, I am not sure of the exact date, but I have documents showing a Kenyan hospital attended to him on the 14th of May. He went there because he has issues with his heart. They said he has hypertension and a heart murmur.
“He has settled at somewhere in Nairobi where he entered with his passport, I have the bio-data page of his passport that has an immigration stamp showing Kanu was admitted before the extraordinary rendition.”
“The fateful day was on the 19th of June,” Ejimakor claimed. “He drove to Jomo Kenyatta Airport, to the underground garage, to pick up one visitor who flew into the country. That was where a group of seven men attacked him. They grabbed him and took him to one private facility where he was blindfolded, chained and tortured for most of the eight days that he was there,”.
The IPOB lawyer added that Kanu remained in the private facility until he was finally handed over to Nigerian authorities.
“On the 27th of June, he (Kanu) said he was driven, blindfolded, to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and bundled inside a private jet. He was the sole passenger inside the jet, with no immigration clearance. They drove him straight atop the tarmac to a place close to the plane. They put him inside the plane with Nigerian security officials on board and the plane left around 12 noon. It landed in Nigeria the same day around 4 or 5 pm.”
Politics Nigeria understands that Nnamdi Kanu’s trial will continue on Monday, July 26, 2021.
