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The High Court sitting in Owerri today 24th of august 2018, release 114 remaining IPOB women who were arrested and detained in IMO STATE during a protest demanding for the where about  of their son Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, his parents and other IPOB members who where abducted or kidnapped by Nigeria Military has been freed unconditionally

(1) Afoma Umoh Wisdom (64yrs) (2) Virginia Akwufube (62yrs) (3) Ezike Emmanuela (62yrs) (4) Uzoma Oraka (62yrs) (5) Charity Obioha (60yrs) (6) Chinyere Nwachukwu (55yrs) (7) Udeogu Margret (58yrs) (8) Rachel Okengwu (58yrs) (9) Angelina Felix (55yrs) (10) Monica Anaelechi (54yrs), (11) Esther Osuji (52yrs), (12) Florence Olewembu (52yrs), (13) Nkechi Ekwedisika (52yrs) (14) Kosarachukwu Udegbunam (51yrs), (15) Josephine Ogolo (51yrs) (16) Monica Nwaeleke (50yrs) (17) Mabel Okoire (50yrs) (18) Chika Njoku (50yrs) (19) Grace Nkemakolam (50yrs) (20) Paulina Awunezi (50yrs) (21) Christiana Muonwuba (50yrs) (22) Margret Eze (50yrs) (23) Florence Egede (50yrs) (24) Rose Osuchukwu (50yrs) (25) Comfort Uti (50yrs) (26) Nnedinma Onuoha (49yrs) (27) Agatha Nwachukwu (49yrs) (28) Ijeoma Okorie (30yrs) (29) Uloma Ejiogu (30yrs) (30) Victoria Jacob (45yrs) (31) Vivian Ozuruigbo (30yrs) (32) Chinenye Imo (40yrs) (33) Chinyere Egbulom

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has ordered the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, to pay 11 million Naira as damages for the breach of fundamental rights of 11 Gombe State indigenes illegally detained by officers of the Nigerian Army. This followed a fundamental right enforcement suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/777/2018, which the Applicants filed through their lawyer, Mr Mela Audu Nunghe. The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, declared the detention of the applicants, James Yusuf, Ishaya Ali Poshiya, Nehemiah Yohanna Poshiya, Husseini Poshiya, Hamma Poshiya, Yusuf Mafindi, Yila Boyi, James Bare, Ezekiel Dandaudu, Ali Ishaku and Ilya Bala since July 6, illegal and unconstitutional. “The long detention and torture, without detention order, of the Applicants since July 6, 2018, by servants and agents of the 1st defendant, COAS, is illegal and unconstitutional and is a violation of the applicants’ fundamental rights as enshrined under Sections

A l eading Igbo socio-cultural association, Igbo Bu Igbo, has told the Federal Government to stop humiliating women from the South-East zone under the “dubious guise of a crackdown on the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra.” In a statement signed by Dr Law Mefor and Chijioke Ndukwe, Chancellor and Publicity Secretary of the group, respectively, the group wondered why the police descended so heavily on “harmless women who were exercising their right to peaceful assembly, tear-gassed and clamped them into detention.” The group contended that the police action was regrettable, even as it said that brutalisation and the use of force had no place in a democracy. It accused President Muhammadu Buhari of cracking down on the people of the South-East zone since assumption of office in 2015. The statement read, “It is with sadness and regret that we observe the continued inhuman treatment being meted out to women of Igbo extraction who were brutalised by the police before being c

IPOB Press Release, “Shame On All Igbo Leaders Not Condemning Detention Of Our Women By Okorocha” | August 23, 2018 The global family of the  Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) condemn in its entirely the ongoing judicial charade and actions of the Magistrates Court sitting in Owerri under the control of Rochas Okorocha of Imo State with the backing of Aso Rock and those Igbo Efulefus whose silence so far is confirmation of their treacherous nature and ambivalence to the suffering of Biafrans in general and Igbos in particular. We equally note with particular concern, the silence of some supposed human rights groups in Nigeria. We are aware that IPOB related cases always showcase the very worst in Nigerian judicial practice. The level of ignorance and disregard for simple rules of a properly constituted court of law presently on show in Imo State lends further credence to our assertion that a significant proportion of magistrates and judges are ignorant of the laws of Nigeria a