Eyinnaya Abaribe
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on Sunday asked the
Department of State Services to immediately charge the senator
representing Abia South Senatorial District, Eyinnaya Abaribe, to court
or grant him bail if it has not completed its investigations.
He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to direct all security
agencies in the country to respect the fundamental rights of every
citizen, as he charged the human rights community to be prepared “to
halt fascism which has continued to rear its ugly head in the land.”
Falana , who anchored his demands on the undertaking by the
Buhari-led Federal Government to stop impunity and respect the human
rights of every person living in Nigeria under the rule of law, noted
that the arrest and detention of criminal suspects and law-abiding
people without court orders had continued unabated.
Operatives of the DSS reportedly arrested Eyinnaya and raided his home in the Apo Legislative Quarters in Abuja, on Friday.
But Falana regretted on Sunday that the All Progressives
Congress-led Federal Government had been unable to end impunity which
members of the then opposition including Buhari suffered in the hands of
the then Peoples Democratic Party-led government.
He said if the DSS had any evidence of the alleged offences against
Abaribe, it should arraign him in court, or grant him bail if it had
yet to complete its investigations.
He said, “The Department of State Services has said that
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is being detained on account of his links with
the Indigenous People of Biafra.
“It is common knowledge that the Senator had stood surety for Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB.”
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