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Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu's Ailment Not Life-Threatening, Fit to Stand Trial - NMA Tells Court
An independent medical panel found Nnamdi Kanu's condition non-life-threatening, clearing him to participate in his terrorism trial starting October 23, court records show.
- On Thursday, the Nigerian Medical Association panel said Nnamdi Kanu's ailment is not life threatening and concluded he is fit to stand trial, convincing Justice James Omotosho the case could proceed.
- Justice James Omotosho ordered the Nigerian Medical Association to set up a panel after conflicting medical claims from experts engaged by the prosecution and the defence.
- The court directed a private consultation between 9am and 12noon on October 22 and allowed Kanu Agabi to meet Kanu outside the Department of State Services.
- The trial will resume on October 23, and Justice James Omotosho granted Nnamdi Kanu six consecutive days to open and close his defence starting that date.
- In open court on Thursday, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo tendered the panel's report submitted on October 13 and read part of it during proceedings at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
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Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu's Ailment Not Life-Threatening, Fit to Stand Trial - NMA Tells Court
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) panel constituted by its president, on Thursday, told the Federal High Court in Abuja that Nnamdi Kanu's complained-about ailment was not life-threatening.
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Read Full ArticleHURIWA Condemns Ruling On Kanu’s Health, Faults NBA Over Protest
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has expressed concern over the recent ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja which upheld the report of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) declaring that the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is medically fit to stand trial. A statement issued on Friday by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, described the decision as “a tra…
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