After two years in detention, members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who the Nigerian Army suspected to be members of the group were caught in the Imo River hamlet in Abia State.Information Guide Nigeria
Sunday Nwafor, 59, Uzonwanne Ejiofor, 48, and Wilfred Dike, 36, were held at the 14 Brigade Nigerian Army Ohafia, Abia State, on February 27, 2020, according to PUNCH.
On Wednesday night, Amnesty International Nigeria applauded the release of the alleged IPOB members.JAMB Result
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Amnesty International encouraged the Federal Government to reveal details regarding the whereabouts of other victims of forced disappearance and isolation.
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.”
Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, the spokesperson for the Nigerian Army, could not be reached because he did not answer calls or messages, according to PUNCH.
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