Biafra; DSS Releases Actor Chinwetalu Agu

By Charles Igbo

The Department of State Security Services, DSS, on Tuesday, October 12, released Veteran Nollywood Actor, Chiwetalu Agu from its custody.

The release comes four days after the DSS took him into custody the day he was released from the custody of the Military in Onitsha.

Agu had entered into trouble when  he was arrested by soldiers of the Operation Golden Dawn in the Upper Iweka Area of Onitsha, on October 7, 2021, donning a long dress made of the colors of the  Biafran flag.

The Army accused him of incitement, and of seeking support for the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, a separatist group, seeking independence for the South-east Zone from Nigeria to be called the Republic of Biafra.

Bur Agu had said he was on a charity drive, giving away N10,000.00 worth of bread to the underprivileged.

On Friday, October 8, he was released by the Army to the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, which leadership intervened. But the DSS took him into custody same day.

On Tuesday, October 12, after another intervention, according to the AGN, he was finally released to its leadership again.

Unlike when he was released by the Army, and still donned his Biafran flag dress, he no longer wore it. Instead, he wore a short-sleeved T-shirt on a black pair of trousers.

Announcing his release in a post, AGN’s Director of Communications, Monalisa Chinda, was full of commendation for AGN’s leadership.

She wrote:

“The National President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Ejezie Emeka Rollas, has again secured the release of Actor Chinwetalu Agu  from the custody of the DSS.

“On behalf of the Guild, I was at the DSS office with my colleague, the Senior Special Assistant on Military Affairs and Inter Government Relations to the President, Steve Eboh, to receive Mr Agu today.”

It is not known yet under which terms the Actor was released.