A Federal High Court in Awka, the Anambra State capital has granted bail to the two youth leaders of Nnadi Nsugbe community who were arbitrarily detained for over two months by the Nigeria Police Force. The two youth leaders - Chidi Akudo and Charles Obodoechina -were arrested on November 13, 2022, by operatives of the Anambra command of the state allegedly on the orders of one Senator Alphonsus Igbeke aka Ubanesse.
January 19, 2023Since their arrests, the police neither charged them nor release them on bail despite appeals from Nsugbe Council of Elders that they should be released since they committed no offence.
SaharaReporters learnt that since their arrests, the police neither charged them nor release them on bail despite appeals from Nsugbe Council of Elders that they should be released since they committed no offence. They had in a Save-Our-Soul sent to SaharaReporters, stated that the decision to clear bushes along the power line that brought electricity to the community came after their youths living in the Diaspora contributed money to pay Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC to restore power to the community.
“They were first detained at 3-3 police station for three days before transferring them to State Criminal Investigation Department in Awka. Till today, these boys have not been granted bail or charged to court. What is their offence? The police said that Senator Igbeke ordered that they should be charged for vandalising EEDC property.
SaharaReporters also reported that following its report, the deputy commissioner of police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department in December went after courts that had gone for Christmas vacation to allegedly obtain a backdoor order to detain the duo beyond December.
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