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DSS Releases Ebonyi Lawyer Detained Since 2021, After FIJ Story
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The Department of State Service (DSS) has released Pius Awoke, the Ebonyi-based lawyer who was arrested on July 21, 2021.
This is happening one month after FIJ’s publication on the matter.
Kelechi Anwu, a colleague of Awoke, who first spoke to FIJ about the issue in May, said that the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) was triggered to look into the case after FIJ’s publication.
“The NBA responded to the case because they read your article, which I made sure to circulate,” he told FIJ on Saturday.
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“Awoke was travelling from Ebonyi to Abuja when officials of the DSS stopped his commercial vehicle and arrested him. They arrested all the men who were on the bus, including him, thinking they were of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) sect,” the source told FIJ.
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