The Department of State Services
(DSS) has released Enyinnaya Abaribe, lawmaker representing Abia south
senatorial district.
Uchenna Awom, Abaribe’s media
aide, confirmed this in a statement issued on Tuesday night.
“About 6.32pm on Tuesday, June
26, 2018, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe walked into freedom after five days in the
DSS gulag,” the statement read.
“Abaribe, who was granted
administrative bail, was released to his lawyers led by Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume,
SAN.
“The collective calls and demand
for his release have shown the great spirit of Nigerians for justice.”
Operatives of the secret police
picked up the senator on Friday and searched his house hours later.
He was arrested for standing as a
guarantor to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who
is standing trial for alleged treason.
Kanu was granted bail in April
but disappeared from the public in September when soldiers raided his residence
in Abia state.
On Sunday, Femi Falana, human
rights lawyer, demanded that the DSS either arraign the PDP lawmaker in court
or grant him bail.
Earlier in the day, Abaribe
appeared in court. He displayed a book with title: ‘Dirty Politics Deception,
Distraction and Democracy’, written by Kathleen Jamieson, an American author.
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