FG releases suspected IPOB members after two years

 

Suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, arrested by officers of the Nigerian Army since February 27, 2020, at the Imo River community in Abia State, have been released after two yaers.

According to PUNCH, the victims, Sunday Nwafor, 59; Uzonwanne Ejiofor, 48; and Wilfred Dike, 36, were held at 14 Brigade Nigerian Army Ohafia, Abia State since 2020.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International Nigeria, on Wednesday night welcomed the release of the trio in a statement, urging the government to provide information about the status of other victims of enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention.

“Amnesty International urges Nigerian authorities to provide information about the status of other victims of enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention, grant their families and lawyers access to them, charge them to court, or release them in the absence of any legal authority used to justify their continued detention,” the statement read in part.

Spokesperson for the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, did not take calls nor responded to text messages, PUNCH reports.