Biafra: Outcry in court over the status of Bright Chimezie Ishinwa as family members begs FG, DSS to release him

Biafra: Outcry in court over the status of Bright Chimezie Ishinwa as family members begs FG, DSS to release him

•Nigerian Govt. should please release him to us whether dead or alive - Brother
•His children are sick, they need him around - Wife
•We don’t know what the DSS has in mind, his matter was not mentioned in court today - Lawyer

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue and Chikwas Onu Ikpe | For Biafra Writers

October 19, 2017

ABUJA— There was a public outcry at the Federal High Court premises last Tuesday as the Nigerian secret police, the Department of State Services, DSS, for the umpteenth time, failed to produce a Biafra activist, Bright Chimezie Ishinwa in court.

Ishinwa, who was arrested earlier last year by agents of the DSS, arraigned in court on two-count charges of illegal importation of goods and conspiracy to commit treasonable felony which attracts five years imprisonment on conviction, was joined as the fifth defendant in the ongoing trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu and three others.

His family members who appeared in court on Tuesday, expressed concern over the state of health and the failure of the DSS to produce him in court to stand trial, even after having being acquitted and discharged by a Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

Speaking to Biafra Writers’ Correspondents, one Orioha John, who claimed to be the brother of the detained Biafra activist said, “I traveled all the way from the East to Abuja Federal High Court, to witness the court case of my brother. I have not seen him among the four people that were detained. He is missing.