Abuja-based human rights lawyers who filed contempt of court charges against the Director General of the State Security Service, (SSS) on the continued
detention of Godwin Emefiele have raised alarm over alleged plans by the DSS to frame them up on terrorism criminal charges.
In the tweet, the DSS was quoted as saying; “Charge and bail, overzealous uninformed IPOB/ESN lawyer Maxwell Okpara mobilises other like-minded lawyers against DG, SS. Futile Efforts. Well, Nigerians, beware! This is in bad faith. Transferred aggression. “This was about 17 hours after it had been posted and had really gone viral. At that time, it had been seen by about 2 million people globally, generated over 3600 comments, retweeted almost 5000 times and liked more than 2500 times.
“In the same vein, the tweet by the SSS has also exposed it very clearly to the world that the persecution Godwin Emefiele suffers today is largely due to the ethnic profiling as directed by the DG SSS.
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