The Department of State Services
(DSS) has released Jones Abiri, the editor and publisher of the Weekly Source
newspaper, who was arrested on Saturday.
Samuel Ogala, Abiri’s lawyer,
said his client was released from the secret police’s detention facility in
Abuja on Monday afternoon.
The journalist was arrested
during the weekend in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital, where he publishes his
Weekly Source magazine.
As of the time of filing this
report, there has been no official statement from the DSS to clarify the
arrest, which is coming months after the journalist was released from a lengthy
detention.
Abiri was previously arrested in
2016 on allegations of sponsoring militant activities.
He was accused of being the
leader of the joint revolutionary council of the separatist group, Joint Niger
Delta Liberation Force.
The publisher was also accused of
threatening oil companies and demanding money from them.
He was granted bail in August
2018 when an Abuja magistrate court struck out a suit against him after being
held in detention for two years.
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