The lead counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, on Friday, cried out over the continued detention of his domestic staff by the Department of State Service, since June 6, 2021, when his ancestral home in Oraifite, Anambra state was invaded by security operatives.
He also pleaded with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to prevail on the Director-General of the Department of State Security to immediately and unconditionally release his domestic staff.
“They are still being illegally detained in their facility since June 2021 till date. We call on the President and the Attorney-General of the Federation to prevail on the Director-General of the DSS to immediately and unconditionally release my domestic staff.
“We also ask for the immediate compliance with all the terms of the judgment, already served on them”, he said.
Ejiofor stated these during a press conference held in Abuja on the judgment of a Federal High Court in Awka which declared the invasion as “barbaric, uncivilized, illegal and unconstitutional.”
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He also demanded an immediate compliance with the court verdict to release his detained workers.
The activist alleged that his house at Umunakwa Ifite, Oraifite, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State was on June 6, 2021, unlawfully invaded by combined operatives of Army, DSS, Police, and Civil Defence during which his Assistant, Samuel Okoro was gruesomely murdered.
To conceal evidence, Ejiofor said that the corpse of Okoro was callously burnt in his Camry Toyota to ashes by the security operatives.
He, however, thanked the Federal High Court for the judgment delivered in his suit marked FHC/AWK/CS/56/2021 adding that the court verdict had set the record straight against the denial by the security operatives.
The lawyer claimed that he committed no offence other than defending Nnamdi Kanu in the charges brought against him by the Federal Government.