The Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called for the release of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe who was arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS.
Suggesting that the senator must have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, the group said the senator was not in a position to produce him (Kanu).
Ohanaeze Ndigbo made the call in a statement by its President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief John Nnia Nwodo.
Abaribe, it would be recalled, stood surety along with others for Kanu, in a court case.
He, however, cannot be found at present.
In the statement signed by Nwodo, Ohanaeze Ndigbo said Abaribe could not have been in a position to produce Kanu in view of the invasion which led to his disappearance.
The statement read: “The circumstances prevailing at the time of the disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu are beyond the contemplation of the law that a surety can guarantee the production of an accused person.
“The army in the name of “Operation Python Dance” invaded Nnamdi’s home and destabilized normalcy there.
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“It is only the security agency that can disclose Nnamdi’s whereabout.
“Senator Abaribe has no capacity, nor has any surety in the circumstances to know the whereabouts of Nnamdi Kanu.
“What happened in Umahia was an invasion, a war of a kind.
“Nnamdi may have been killed or captured in the imbroglio or even escaped into hiding.
“The onus lies on the security forces to disclose his whereabout.
“The judiciary is beginning to tow the line of the executive by throwing the law overboard in matters that affect the South East.
“We are all equal before the law.
“Senator Abaribe must be released forthwith.”
