The leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has filed a fundamental human rights enforcement suit at the Federal High Court Abuja against the Department of State Services.
Through his counsel, Maxwell Opara, the detained separatist agitator is alleging that DSS is keeping him in solitary confinement and providing him with quack and incompetent medical services.
He is therefore asking the court to declare the alleged action as illegal and unconstitutional.
Briefing judiciary correspondents on the case, Opara noted that the action of the secret police amounts to mental torture, inhuman, degrading treatment and a gross violation of Kanu’s right to dignity of human person as guaranteed under Sections 34(1)(a) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Articles 5 of African Charter on Human and Peoples rights.
Among the reliefs being sought by the applicant are for the court to order DSS to transfer him to a Correctional Centre where awaiting trial inmate are kept. He is also asking the court to order DSS to allow him practice his religion without interference.
