Their lawyer said the four were illegally arrested and detained briefly at a military facility before being charged in court.
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel to the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, disclosed this in a statement, Wednesday.
He gave the names of the accused persons discharged by the court as Ifeanyi Ogbu, Arinze David, Uchenna Abah and Stephen Ejiofor. The lawyer said they were “illegally arrested” and also detained “briefly” at a military detention facility in Enugu Cantonment, but did not say the exact time of their arrest.
He said the four suspects were later charged to the court following “irresistible legal pressure” mounted on the Nigerian security agencies, who were carrying out the prosecution. “Today, after hearing our application praying the court to strike out these frivolous charges filed against them and after listening to our robust argument on law, as convincingly canvassed by our own Augustine Ezeokeke, the honourable court, consequently found the application to be meritorious and accordingly struck out the entire charge and discharged these innocent defendants,” Mr Ejiofor said.