Femi Falana, counsel to the
detained leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Ibraheem El-Zakzaky
on Tuesday said his client has lost one eye and is in need of urgent attention.
He also said El-Zazarky’s wife
needed urgent medical attention as the bullets in the body of the detained wife
of the Islamic cleric were yet to be removed.
The trial of the IMN leader and
his wife Zeenatuddeen held briefly Tuesday at a Kaduna High Court before it was
adjourned to March 25.
El-Zakzaky is currently facing
trial over allegations of unlawful assembly, disruption of public peace and
culpable homicide filed against him by the Kaduna State government.
He was, however, denied bail by a
judge, Gideon Kurada during the last sitting on November 7, 2018.
Shortly after the case was
adjourned, Falana told journalists that his client and his wife needed urgent
medical attention in order to stand their trial.
According to him, he had applied
to the court to grant Mr Zakzaky bail because ”he has already lost an eye and
his wife needs urgent medical attention”.
Falana said since their arrest,
both have not been given adequate medical attention.
Falana said the state government
team led by the state solicitor general had applied to withdraw the case
against two of the four defendants ”that is the third and fourth defendants”
that are standing trial with Mr Zakzaky, leaving only him and his wife.
“We have no objection to that so
the application was granted, We then applied for urgent medical attention for
both of them (Zakzaky and his wife), on the grounds that since both of them
were shot by the Army on December 14, 2015, they have not been given adequate
medical attention.
“We, therefore, pray the court
allows them to remain alive so as to stand trial since they are ready for the
trial.
“In the case of malam (Zakzaky),
he has lost an eye in detention because and is in the process of losing the
second eye because he has developed glaucoma. In the case of the wife, the
bullets on her have not been ‘totally’ extracted after three years and she
suffers excruciating pains.”
The case was later adjourned to
March 25 to enable the embattled Shiite leader and his wife get medical
attention according to Mr Falana.
The IMN leader has been in
detention since December 2015. The Nigerian government has refused to release
him despite several court rulings granting him bail.
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