EL- ZAKZAKY PARTIALLY BLIND, WIFE NEEDS URGENT MEDICAL ATTENTION - FEMI FALANA TO FG
khaleb
Jan 23, 2019
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.
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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.
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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.
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He was, however, denied bail by a judge, Gideon Kurada during the last sitting on November 7, 2018.
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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 ÔÇØhe has already lost an eye and his wife needs urgent medical attentionÔÇØ.
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Falana said since their arrest, both have not been given adequate medical attention.
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?Falana said the state government team led by the state solicitor general had applied to withdraw the case against two of the four defendants ÔÇØthat is the third and fourth defendantsÔÇØ that are standing trial with Mr Zakzaky, leaving only him and his wife.
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"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.ÔÇØ
The case was later adjourned to March 25 to enable the embattled Shiite leader and his wife get medical attention according to Mr Falana.
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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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