Biafra: Nigeria Army Releases Suspected IPOB Members, Arrested, Held, Since 2020

The Nigeria Army has released suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) arrested by officers of the Nigerian Army on February 27, 2020, at the Imo River community in Abia State.

CityNews reports that the arrested suspects of IPOB were released without an official statement from the Nigerian Army of they were trialed before any Nigerian court.

The victims, according to Punch, were Sunday Nwafor, 59; Uzonwanne Ejiofor, 48; and Wilfred Dike, 36, were held at 14 Brigade Nigerian Army Ohafia, Abia State for over two years.

Reacting to the release of the detained accused IPOB members, Amnesty International questioned the Nigerian Army that information on the status of the victims was not made public.

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the government to provide information about the status of other victims of enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention.

Amnesty also called on the Nigeria Army to disclose information ob other detained IPOB suspects.

The statement read in part, “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.”