Nnamdi Kanu: My Kenyan Abductors Were Told I Was An Islamic Terrorist

Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has revealed how he was blindfolded and flown into the country in a private jet after his abduction in Kenya on the allegation of being a collaborator with Islamist terrorists operating in Kenya.

A statement issued by his lawyer, Aloy Ejimafor, said that the local abductors who held Nnamdi Kanu and tortured him in a private facility only softened towards him when they realized that he was not an Islamist terrorist.

The lawyer said that Nnamdi Kanu was subsequently flown in a private jet on Sunday, June 27, from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, without passing through Kenyan immigration as he was driven straight to the aircraft. He was also the only passenger in the aircraft.

Ejimakor, who spoke following a visit to Kanu in the DSS detention facility revealed that Nnamdi Kanu revealed that he was blindfolded before he was driven to the airport. According to him they left Nairobi sometime around noon and arrived Nigeria that evening.

Ejimakor said that ‘Kanu was in point of fact tortured and subjected to untold inhuman treatment in Kenya. He said his abductors disclosed to him that they abducted him at the behest of the Nigerian government.’

Asked of how Nnamdi Kanu related with his abductors, the lawyer said that his abductors said that they were told he was a Nigerian terrorist linked to the Islamic terrorists in Kenya. But after several days when they discovered his true identity, they tended to treat him less badly.’

Barrister Ejimakor said that no warrant of arrest ‘was shown to Kanu or even mentioned to him. And for the eight days, he was held incommunicado, nothing of presenting him before a Court or transferring him to an official detention facility was ever mentioned. He was held in a nondescript private facility and chained to a bare floor.’

“Kanu was interviewed for the first time in my presence by three DSS officers. The interview was revealing as it contained certain new allegations that were never heard of before. But they all relate to his status as the leader of IPOB,’ Ejimakor said.

Affirming that Nnamdi Kanu was holding high, he said that “despite what he has passed through, he was in high spirits and looked forward to overcoming the extraordinary rendition that brought him to Nigeria.”

“In my opinion, before any court can subject Kanu to trial, it has to first conduct a trial within a trial on the grievous incident that forced Kanu to leave Nigeria and the equally grievous incident that forced him back to Nigeria. No court of law, conscience and equity will overlook those two incidents and proceed to trial.”

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