{"id":99259,"date":"2022-09-15T12:09:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T11:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99259"},"modified":"2022-09-15T12:09:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T11:09:47","slug":"ipob-members-arrested-31-months-ago-in-abia-by-military-regain-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ipob-members-arrested-31-months-ago-in-abia-by-military-regain-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"IPOB members arrested 31 months ago in Abia by military regain freedom\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Federal Government has released suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra arrested by officers of the Nigerian Army since February 27, 2020, at the Imo River community in Abia State.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com sources put names of the victims to include, Sunday Nwafor, 59; Uzonwanne Ejiofor, 48; and Wilfred Dike, 36, who were held at 14 Brigade Nigerian Army Ohafia, Abia State for over two years.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Amnesty International Nigeria, has welcomed the release of the trio.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIn a statement on Wednesday night, Amnesty International urged the government to provide information about the status of other victims of enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmnesty 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,\u201d the statement read in part.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson for the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, is yet to respond to enquiries.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has released suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra arrested by officers of the Nigerian Army since February 27, 2020, at the Imo River community in&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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