NMA conducts court-ordered checks on Kanu, submits report

Kanu in court

The Nigerian Medical Association has conducted the court-ordered health examinations on the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, The PUNCH reports.

The Secretary-General of the NMA, Dr. Ben Egbo, confirmed the development in an interview with our correspondent on Sunday.

The Federal High Court in Abuja had on September 26 ordered the NMA to, within eight days, constitute a panel of medical experts to assess the health condition of Kanu.

In his ruling, Justice James Omotosho ordered the NMA President to submit the committee’s report within eight days for consideration on whether Kanu should be transferred to the National Hospital for treatment.

On Sunday, the NMA’s Secretary-General, Egbo, said the evaluation had been done as ordered by the court, adding that the report had been submitted to the Attorney General of the Federation.

Egbo said, “The court gave an order that we should do it. I think, within eight days, and immediately the Department of State Services wrote to us, we summoned a committee of seven doctors with one coordinator, making it eight.

“We had the seven doctors from the seven geopolitical zones of Nigeria with different fields of specialty in Ophthalmology, Neurology, Urology, Gastroenterology, and other various areas of specialty. Punch