Nnamdi Kanu’s Counsel, Ejiofor, To  FG: Comply With Judgement; Release My Aide

By Ayodele Oni

One of the Counsels to the detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has  pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, to  immediately, and unconditionally release his domestic staff.

He explained that his personal aide was arrested by agents of State since 2021, when his country home was raided by Security agents.

Speaking in Abuja  on Friday 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 worker.

The lawyer claimed 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.

Ejiofor said that the corpse of Okoro was callously  burnt in his Camry Toyota to ashes by the Security Operatives, to conceal evidence.

He stated that the Federal High Court judgment delivered in his suit marked FHC/AWK/CS/56/2021, has vindicated him, adding that the court verdict had set the record straight as against the denial by the security operatives.

The lawyer further added that he committed no offence other than defending Nnamdi Kanu in the charges brought against him by the Federal Government.

Ejiofor fingered a top hierarchy in the Police, who he alleged was directly involved in the planning and execution of the illegal invasion and challenged the Police authorities to investigate the Police officer’s telephone calls and messages between June 5th to 7th 2021 for deserved punishment.

Justice Hassan Nganjiwa had in the judgment delivered on July 22 ordered Police, DSS, Nigeria Security and civil Defense Corps and the Nigerian Army to pay a sum of N107m compensation to the lawyer for the unlawful invasion of his house and for destruction done to his  properties during the unlawful invasion.

In the judgement, Justice Nganjiwa had held that “I wish to state that after watching the CCTV footage tendered in this matter, I ran out of words to express my feelings to what I saw. I could not believe what I saw was done by human beings like us to the applicant (Ejiofor).

“In the first place, there was nothing shown why the applicant’s house was invaded. Even if he had committed murder, the respondents went too far by taking the law into their hands.

“The applicant, all the occupants of the house and the neighbors were traumatized psychologically, mentally, socially and otherwise.”