Ejimakor Raises Alarm, Calls for Release of Chukwu Sunday Obasi, Detained by DSS Since 2021

_Secular Advocacy TV News Desk_

Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to the IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has lamented detention of one Mr. Chukwu Sunday Obasi by the operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS since March 2021 without trial, publicly calling for his immediate release from custody.

In a post on his official X handle, Ejimakor disclosed that Obasi was arrested “on mere suspicion of being #IPOB” and has since been held without access to lawyers or relatives.

The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB is a non-violent self-determination seeking group founded and led by the jailed Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The movement seeks the restoration of the defunct sovereign state of Biafra through civil disobedience and international lobbying mechanisms. The Federal government had secured an exparte order proscribing the group.

The proscription of IPOB still contested on appeal has been deployed as leeway to arrest and detain without trial suspected IPOB members. It has been alleged that the order has been weaponised by the DSS, the Army, the Police and other government agencies to label Igbo youths arrest them without trial.

Concluding his X post calling for Obasi’s immediate release, Ejimakor wrote:

“Please join me in publicly calling for his immediate release or at least presented in court to defend himself,” Ejimakor wrote, using the hashtag #FreeSundayObasi.

The DSS has not issued a statement on Obasi’s case as of press time. Ejimakor’s call adds to ongoing concerns from human rights groups and legal practitioners over prolonged pre-trial detention of individuals linked to separatist agitations in the South-East.