Charles Okah has embarked on a hunger strike to protest against harassment by officials of the Kuje prison.
The alleged mastermind of the 2010 Independence Day bombing in Abuja, Charles Okah, has embarked on a hunger strike to protest against harassment by officials of the Kuje prison.
The suspect has also threatened to file a suit demanding N5 billion damages from the federal government.
Premium Times reports that the threat was contained in a letter written by Okah’s counsel, Timi Okponipere, and addressed to Abdulraman Dambazau, the minister of interior.
“At the time of writing this letter, our client is as emaciated as a bean pole on account of the hunger strike he has embarked upon, to draw global attention to his plight.”
“Literarily and figuratively speaking, our client is virtually a dead man. If our client dies in prison custody, the entire world, particularly the Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta where our client hails from, shall rise in unison against President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, even as we concede the fact that, our client’s ordeal began during the tenure of former president Goodluck Jonathan, a fellow Ijaw,” the letter read in part