Full Report on how 400 Oyigbo residents were abducted by soldiers and transported to the North, as Abuja court grants bail to 29

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Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai addressing the troops at the Headquarters 1 Brigade in Gusau, Zamfara State

An Abuja chief magistrate court has ordered the release of 29 out of first batch of 30 Oyigbo (also called Obigbo), Rivers State residents allegedly detained by the Nigerian Army in Abuja following the recent #EndSARS protest in the community.
The bail granted to the 29 Oyigbo residents on Thursday (today) followed the alarm raised by a human rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) on Wednesday alleging that the Nigerian Army had abducted 400 Oyigbo residents.
The report said 150 of the 400 abducted Oyigbo, Rivers State residents were being held incommunicado at the Sani Abacha Barracks, among other military dungeons in Abuja.
Sundiata Post learnt that an Today, the international human rights lawyer and Nigerian-British citizen handling the matter, Richard Ebuka Okoroafor, filed a bail application for first 30 of the victims. The Chief Magistrate Court at Wuse considered their bail and granted 29 out of the 30 bail.
Sundiata Post learnt that the 30th victim was unable to be granted bail on religious ground. Other batches among the 150 will get their bail applications processed after Christmas and New Year holidays.

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The full report by Intersociety reads:

How 400 Obigbo Residents Or More Were Abducted By Soldiers & Transported To Secret Military Dungeons In  The North, 52 Rescued In Niger State, 3 Tortured To Death & 150 Languishing In Abacha Barracks (Abuja),Etc

Decree 2 Is Back

The International Freedom of Exchange had referred to Nigeria’s Military Decree 2 of 1984 “as the Nigerian State Security (Detention of Persons) Decree No. 2 of 1984, which allows for indefinite and incommunicado detention of Nigerian citizens without trial”. From every indication, this infamous and anti democratic military law is back and put in clandestine practice in Nigeria under the present central Government and this time around is being used by the country’s heavily Muslim-dominated and controlled Nigerian Army to target on religious and tribal grounds citizens of old Eastern and Mid Western Nigeria particularly the Igbo citizens of Judeo-Christian faith.

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Nigerian Army Abducted 400 Obigbo Residents Or More

The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law (Intersociety) is shocked to note that the number of Obigbo residents, all Christians and mostly Igbo citizens, abducted and disappeared by the Nigerian Army, has risen to 400 or more; out of which, 150 have been discovered to be held indefinitely and incommunicado without Court trial in different secret Army and Spy Police dungeons located in the Federal Capital Territory or Abuja.

Some of the detainees

In our latest finding, 52 defenceless Obigbo residents, all Judeo-Christian Igbos were recently rescued and their release secured through three different Courts and four processes in Niger State. The 52 rescued abductees exclude three that died from torture in soldiers’ captivity. While one died on the road during their secret and night long transportation from Obigbo-to-Obinze (Army Barracks)-Abuja, two others died in Army secret detention custodies in Niger State. It was further discovered that most of the abductees were transported by road while others including elderly ones among them were airlifted through the local wing of the Port Harcourt Int’l Airport in Rivers State and the Sam Mbakwe Airport in Imo State.

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Corroboratively, Intersociety had back in September 2020, been told or received some independent reports that ‘dozens of citizens of Igbo Christian extraction were being held secretly and outside the law in places like Gusau Prisons located in Zamfara State. They are defenceless and unarmed citizens vindictively arrested across various states in old Eastern and Mid Western Nigeria, labeled “IPOB terrorists” and secretly transferred to far away Zamfara State, etc where they are secretly being held without trial.

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