The lead counsel to the detained leader of the indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has cried out over the continued detention of his domestic staff by the Department of State Services, (DSS) since June 6, 2021 when his ancestral home in Anambra state was allegedly invaded by security operatives.
Ejiorfor pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari and the attorney general of the federation, Abubakar Malami to prevail on the director-general of the DSS to immediately and unconditionally release the domestic staff.
At a press conference held in Abuja yesterday on the judgment of a Federal High Court which declared his house invasion as “barbaric, uncivilized, illegal and unconstitutional”, Ejiofor demanded immediate compliance with the court verdict to release his detained workers.
He alleged that his house at Umunakwa Ifite, Oraifite, Ekwusigo local government area of Anambra State was on June 6, 2021 unlawfully invaded by a 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 as against the denial by the security operatives.
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