Was Nnamdi Kanu stabbed, attacked in Sokoto prison? Truth revealed

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Maxwell Opara, one of the Indigenous People of Biafra the leader of the IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu’s legal consultants stated that the Biafra agitator was not stabbed or attacked at the Sokoto Custodial Centre.

Kanu is currently serving a life term in the correctional institution after being convicted by Justice James Omotosho of the Abuja Federal High Court.

Following the judgment, the IPOB leader was transferred to Sokoto to fulfill his term.

However, Opara, while speaking in a video on his social media page, said: “I want to start by telling you that nobody stabbed Nnamdi Kanu and nobody attacked him. He is here in the Correctional Centre in Sokoto.”

He explained that Kanu’s plea at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, demanding that the agitator be transferred to Kuje Correctional Centre, was dismissed because the court ruled that it had become academic due to his conviction.

Opara said: “Secondly, there is this issue of his case that was struck out in the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, last week. That case was filed in 2022 when we asked the court to order the DSS to transfer him back to a correctional centre so he could have access to a medical doctor. But we lost at the Federal High Court and then went to the Court of Appeal.

“When the matter came up, the court said it had become academic and struck it out.”

Opara also explained why Justice Omotosho directed that Kanu be relocated to Sokoto to serve his sentence.

“On the issue that relates to the one he filed at the Federal High Court so he could come back to Abuja to handle his appeal, that particular judgment relating to his conviction and sentence required that he be kept in a protective custodial centre in Nigeria, but he was taken to Sokoto Correctional Centre.

“So we tried to confirm from the correctional facility why they took him to Sokoto. Were they implying that Sokoto is more protective than Abuja?

“They said no. After indicating that in the judgment and in the remand warrant, the judge specifically mentioned Sokoto, and that’s why they took him there. Hence, he filed that motion at the Federal High Court,” he added.

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