The recent reports on the illness of the leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has been described as a gimmick to get him out of detention.
This was the view of some security sources who reacted to the story that Kanu’s health was deteriorating in detention and needed his doctors to attend to him.
IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful had insisted last week that Kanu was sick and his deteriorating health was not political.
IPOB maintained that its leader, Kanu is dying, adding that his worsening health status is real.
However, LEADERSHIP investigations revealed that Kanu is currently being taken care off by the best medical personnel of the DSS and external doctor when the need arises.
The sources also said this was not the first time the acclaimed leader of IPOB would be playing this trick as he had always resorted to seeking public sympathy in order to be granted bail.
The sources wondered why the federal government poisoned Kanu when he is actually needed alive and healthy to answer to charges preferred against him in the court of law?
Also recall that one of the family members of Kanu, has urged members of the public, to discountenance the voice note circulating in the social media, alleging that the IPOB leader has been poisoned.
Kanu’s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel told newsmen that he, along with Kanu’s lawyers, on Thursday, met with the IPOB leader at the Abuja headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS), where he is currently detained.
He said his brother did not tell him he was poisoned.
Kanu’s brother wondered how the story of the alleged poisoning began, and cautioned against fake news.
Prince Emmanuel urged Kanu’s followers, Biafrans and members of the public not to take laws into their hands but to remain calm.
Kanu’s brother had posted on his Facebook page the outcome of Thursday’s meeting with him.
The post read: “I Met with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the company of Evangelist and Barr Nnaemeka Ejiofor, at the Department of State Services, Abuja.
“As always, we focused more on victories recorded and the way forward. He maintained that this struggle for liberation remains a collective fight and thanked those who have not betrayed the struggle. He said Nigeria has continuously flouted the orders of her own court and such will never be tolerated in IPOB. Those who attack this noble structure were not there when it was built and can never be brought down
“This movement is divine. To me, IPOB is a huge achievement for our people and for men and women of good conscience.”
We have come that humanity may be set free”.
Meanwhile, the voice note, which is currently trending on social media, claimed that Kanu had been poisoned in detention, urging ‘Biafrans’ to go on rampage in protest.
