Barrister Kevin Okorie, a lawyer from Port Harcourt, has vanished after being invited by the Nigerian Navy for a meeting in September. His wife and community allege that he's being held by the Navy despite their denials.
A Port Harcourt -based lawyer, Barrister Kevin Okorie, has been missing for over three months after allegedly being invited by the Nigerian Navy for a meeting on September 10, 2024. According to details shared by Gloria Worlu on WhatsApp, Okorie was summoned to the Iwofe Aker base in Port Harcourt by naval authorities, but he did not return home that day. Worlu in the post wrote: “Barr. Kevin Okorie from Ebonyi State Onitcha Igboeze (sorry if I spelt it wrongly) is a member of the NBA.
He was invited for a meeting on the 10th of September 2024 by the Navy at Iwofe Aker base in Port Harcourt he didn’t come back that day. On the 11th he called his wife that he was coming back home with some Naval officials. But he didn’t come back, the wife called but his number wasn’t available till the end of that day. On the 12th his wife went to the naval office herself. They told her to go to the police station and report that he was missing. She said NO, that her husband told her he was in their custody. They sent her away. Only for him to call with a naval officer’s phone to say that he’s being held by the Navy. She took food to him and spoke with him the same day. But they didn’t allow her to see him, he was talking to her from another office or cell nobody knows. It went on and on till His community wrote a letter to the NBA that their son was in Naval custody. Two weeks later human rights advocate and some NBA members went to Naval base but they denied he wasn’t there. Human rights invited the wife to follow them again to the Naval base on reaching there they said she should go and come on a Monday but the woman protested that she wouldn’t go anywhere that they’ve been holding her husband for three weeks If he committed any crime he should be charged to court. They denied that there was no record of him
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