BREAKING: Awaiting Trial Inmate In Same Kuje Prison Clinic As Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer Dies Overnight
By Paul Ebi
Ejimakor was arrested and manhandled by the police for participating in #FreeNnamdiKanuNow peaceful protest last Monday in Abuja.
An awaiting trial inmate, identified simply as Bitrus has died overnight at the Kuje Correctional Center of an undisclosed ailment.
Although the inmate’s cause of death has not been determined, prison sources told Saharareporters that he was put in Kuje by the same police prosecutor, Musa Adama who also had arraigned 13 #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protesters and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore.
“Adama is notorious for framing poor Nigerians and sending them to prison to await trial. Several of them never get their cases resolved for years. One of them died today,” the source lamented.
SaharaReporters had reported that Nnamdi Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, was recuperating according to his lawyer, Barrister Maxwell Opara, who visited the ailing lawyer dumped in Kuje prison, Abuja.
Ejimakor was arrested and manhandled by the police for participating in #FreeNnamdiKanuNow peaceful protest last Monday in Abuja.
SaharaReporters had learnt that the lawyer remained in critical condition with a collar brace fixed around his next by prison medics
SaharaReporters had reported that Aloy Ejimakor had fallen ill at the Kuje Prison, Abuja, 24 hours after the presiding judge, Abubakar Umar Sai’id, a Senior Magistrate at Kuje refused to sign the bail bond for his release.
SaharaReporters had learnt that Ejimakor was unable to meet with his counsel, Barrister Maxwell Opara, during the routine visit to the facility.
It had been reported that Ejimakor, when he woke from his situation, narrated that he could not sit straight or stand as nurses at the Kuje prison are attending to him.
Ejimakor was arrested on Monday with 12 others including Nnamdi Kanu’s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, by the Nigerian police during the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest.
They were thereafter teargassed, beaten and then transferred to the CID unit of State Police Command before being detained overnight at the notorious SARS cell known as Abattoir.
On the following day, they were driven by the police all the way to the Kuje Magistrate without their lawyer and summarily remanded by the Senior Magistrate, Abubakar Umar Sai’id, who reportedly had a deal with the police to keep them incarcerated.
Also on Friday, human rights activist and two times presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, was arraigned with Ejimakor and others.
The same Magistrate granted bail and then disappeared without signing off on their bail bond.
Ejimakor is said to be at the clinic being attended to at the Kuje Correctional center by some nurses, where his condition is said to be deteriorating fast.
