High Court Orders DSS To Immediately Release Detained Biafra Leader, Nnamdi Kanu

Respite may have finally come the way of the director of Radio Biafra and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu who has been in incarceration for about 90 days as the Justice of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Adeniyi Ademola,has ordered the Department of State Security to immediately release him.

The court held that the continued detention of Kanu by the Department of States Services (DSS) was unlawful.

It will be noted that on Wednesday, Shuaibu Usman of the magistrate court in Wuse zone 2, Abuja had discharged Kanu, on all counts of criminal conspiracy, intimidation and leading an unlawful society brought against him by the federal government.

The government through its agent, the Department of State Services (DSS), had elected to withdraw the case at the lower court for a higher court, which has jurisdiction to entertain charges bordering on terrorism, to take over.

The DSS has held Kanu for at least 90 days despite an order granting him bail in October. After the lower court granted him bail, the secret police procured an order of the federal high court, Abuja, to keep the self-styled leader of IPOB in detention.

But his lawyer, Vincent Obetta, filed a counter application, seeking bail for the accused person. A wave of protests, engineered by IPOB, had swept through the southeast a few days ago owing to the continued detention of Kanu.

IPOB is demanding an immediate and unconditional release of its leader.