* Says: “Transfer me to Kuje prison, I’m dying in DSS custody”
* Judge rules DSS safest place for him
By our correspondent, Abuja
The embattled Nnamdi Kanu, Tuesday, distanced himself from the violence in the South Eastern part of the country by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) members.
Speaking after the court refused to grant his bail application, Kanu vowed that those behind the violence in the name of being an IPOB member would not be spared.
Meanwhile, Mazi Nnamdi also prayed the court to transfer him to Kuje prison.
He alleged that the Department of State Services had no medical facility to treat him, adding that there was a conspiracy for him to die in the DSS custody.
He said, “People will come to see me they will not allow them. They don’t have a medical facility. I have congestive heart failure. They are patching me up.
“My foot is swollen. I asked them to conduct surgery, and they said they couldn’t. There is a conspiracy to die in detention. I want to be transferred to Kuje.”
However, Justice Binta Nyako maintained that DSS custody is the safest place for him.
Speaking on the violence in the South-East, he noted that the violence persisted because he was being held in the custody of DSS, adding that if released, there would be peace in the entire South- East.
He said, “Anybody committing crime cannot go free. I swear it. Anybody committing crime in the east cannot go free. They are doing it because I am in the DSS(custody). If I were to be outside, nobody can try this. I suspect that some people in government are complicit. They are making money with the insecurity.
“They know if Nnamdi Kanu is outside, in two minutes this nonsense will stop. Who is the bagger or idiot that will speak when I am talking. That I will give an order in the East who is the idiot that I will order that will counter it ? Nobody can. I am Nnmadi Kanu. Rubbish!.
“Anybody involved in any form of violence in the East in the name of IPOB is a goner and they know it. Let me come out of this mess, only two minutes there will be peace in the East.”
