The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the detained chief of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, the permission to use for an order of mandamus to compel the Department of State Service to permit him to have unfettered entry to medical care.
In the swimsuit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/ 2341/2022, Kanu via his authorized staff led by Mike Ozekhome and Ifeanyi Ejiofor mentioned he wanted an unbiased medical examination to establish his well being situation.
After listening to an ex-parte software filed by the IPOB chief, Justice Binta Nyako, directed Kanu’s authorized staff to serve all of the related processes on each the DSS and its Director General, who have been cited as 1st and 2nd Respondents within the matter.
The IPOB chief mentioned he would require from the DSS his admission information, medical and scientific notes, nursing notes, remark charts and documentation throughout remedy or keep-in-hospital, laboratory take a look at outcomes, pharmaceutical information, radiological scans, pictures and experiences, blood transfusion information, physiotherapy and rehabilitative remedy information, scientific findings, in addition to prognosis and remedy prescribed information.
He identified that on October 21, 2021, Justice Nyako had ordered that he must be allowed entry to 3 individuals of his selection, together with his medical medical doctors.
Specifically, he’s praying to the court docket for an order, granting him go away to, “apply for judicial overview within the type of an order of Mandamus, compelling the Respondents to permit the Applicant unhindered entry to his medical medical doctors to allow them to conduct an unbiased examination of his current deteriorating well being situation, as earlier ordered by the Federal High Court, Abuja, Coram, Hon. Justice B.F.M. Nyako, on the twenty first day of October 2021; and as required by the categorical provisions of part 7 of the Anti-Torture Act, 2017.
“An order of this Honourable Court granting go away to the Applicant to use for judicial overview within the type of an order of Mandamus, compelling the Respondents to avail the Applicant with all his medical information, from the twenty ninth day of June 2021, until date.
Contending that part 7 of the Anti-Torture Act, 2017, offered that an individual arrested, detained or present process, custodial investigation, shall have the appropriate to demand a bodily and psychological examination by an unbiased and competent physician of his personal selection after interrogation, which shall be performed outdoors the affect of the Police or safety forces.
“The Respondents have repeatedly denied the Applicant access to medical doctors of his choice to independently examine him, contrary to the order of the court made on the 21st October 2021; and the express provisions of Section 7 of the Anti-Torture Act, 2017.”
He additionally alleged that his well being situation has worsened following his ordeal detention the place he was subjected to torture, inhuman remedy and degradation and that he suffered a gentle cardiac arrest earlier than he was “smuggled back into Nigeria”.
In a verifying affidavit, Kanu advised the court docket that earlier than his arrest and abduction, in Kenya and extraordinary rendition again to Nigeria, he visited a Specialist Cardiologist each week for medical examination and remedy.
“Medical Reports containing the medical historical past of the Applicant as was issued by medical specialists managing the Applicant earlier than his abduction in Kenya and extraordinary rendition to Nigeria are hereby connected and variously marked as Exhibits MNK 3, MNK 4 and MNK 5.
“That however the truth that the Applicant has been discharged by the appellate court docket and his additional detention prohibited, the Applicant remains to be being held in solitary confinement within the custody of the Respondents, the place he’s uncovered to each day psychological and psychological torture and degradation of his human individual.
“The Applicant’s well being situation has continued to take a downward spiral since then.
“That varied medical personnel that attended to the Applicant while in custody had repeatedly knowledgeable him that they may not confirm the rationale for the depletion of potassium within the Applicant’s blood.
“That on varied events, the medical personnel introduced by the Respondents took the Applicant’s blood pattern and allegedly transported the identical to South Africa for screening and up until the current, there isn’t any finish in sight for their trial-and-error medicare.
“That all medical consultants which have to this point attended to this complicated well being scenario of the Applicant did not medically fathom the reason for the continued failure of assorted remedies to this point given to the Applicant, therefore their inquiries as as to whether the Applicant could have been injected with a harmful substance by those who kidnapped him in Kenya earlier than being forcibly smuggled into Nigeria.
“That the medical personnel attending to the Applicant within the custody of the Respondents are oblivious of the reason for the Applicant’s well being situation and are principally utilizing the Applicant as a guinea pig whereas finishing up a trial-and-error train, as they hold altering his medication and rising the dosage with none enchancment by any means in his well being situation. Attached and marked as Exhibit MNK 6 is a duplicate of the Applicant’s medical report issued by the Respondents.
“That the full medical history of the Applicant as contained in his Medical file with the detaining authority were deliberately suppressed, as the facts of the speedy depletion in his potassium content was clearly deleted from the medical report which the Respondents issued to the Applicant”.
Source: punchng.com
