Lucky Obukohwo Reporting
The family of the recently convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has opposed his relocation to Sokoto Correctional Centre, saying was a plot to eliminate him.
In a statement on behalf of the family, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, who raised the concern on Friday, said that when his legal team went to visit him at the Abuja headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS), where he had been held all along, they were told he had been moved to Sokoto.
He expressed worry over the safety of Kanu in a Sokoto Correctional Centre.
Alleging that the relocation of Kanu to Sokoto was a veiled plot to kill him.
According to him “They have secretly relocated Nnamdi Kanu to Sokoto Correctional Centre with the intention to kill him by denying him access to his personal physicians.
“Kanu is on special medication, which is being managed by a private doctor after his failed health.
“Now they want to go back to the old order of administering drugs to him. This is a plan to finally kill him, and we are opposed to it.
“Nigeria should not kill Nnamdi Kanu for seeking justice for his people. He committed no crime to warrant this torture”.
He further called on the international community to hold President Bola Tinubu and the federal government of Nigeria accountable should anything happen to him.