Biafra: Nigerian govt releases suspected IPOB members arrested in 2020

Suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who were arrested in February 2020 at the Imo River community in Abia state, have now been released.

The victims, Sunday Nwafor, 59; Uzonwanne Ejiofor, 48; and Wilfred Dike, 36, were held at 14 Brigade Nigerian Army Ohafia, Abia State for over two years.

Amnesty International Nigeria confirmed their release in a statement on Wednesday night.

They also urged the federal government to provide information about the status of other victims of enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention.

“Amnesty International urges Nigerian authorities to provide information about the status of other victims of enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention, grant their families and lawyers access to them, charge them to court, or release them in the absence of any legal authority used to justify their continued detention,” the statement read in part.