A lawyer to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnaemeka Ejiofor, has cried out over the alleged unlawful detention of 24 members of the
Ejiofor claimed that the detainees were picked up in various states of the South East geo-political zone and had been clamped into detention since 2021.
He said that while the DSS claimed that the detainees were in military custody, the army authorities swore an affidavit in the High Court to the effect that no members of IPOB were in their custody. Barrister Ejiofor, who accused DSS of flagrant breach of fundamental rights of the detainees, lamented that most of them, especially the clergymen, were innocent but were unlawfully arrested in their various churches.
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