Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has called on the Director General of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) to immediately direct for the immediate and unconditional release of his domestic staff in the custody of the DSS, in line with the judgement of a Federal High Court of Awka, Anambra state.
Ejiofor, in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday, called on the DSS boss, who is also a party to the suit, and well represented throughout the proceedings giving rise to the judgment to, in compliance with the positive Orders of the Court, direct for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the DSS personnel involved in the bloody invasion of his ancestral home.
Justice H. A. Nganjiwa of a Federal High Court in Awka, in a judgement in a fundamental rights enforcement suit on October 27, 2022 filed by the wife of Ifeanyi Ejiofor’s late Personal Assistant – Late Mr. Samuel Okoro, who was gruesomely murdered, and his lifeless body burnt to ashes by the combined team of the operatives of the State Security Services (DSS), the Nigeria Police, the Nigerian Army, and one Chukwuka Chizorom Ofoegbu (a.k.a Ijele Speaks) held that, the extra-judicial killing, and setting ablaze of the body of Late Mr Samuel Okoro-the Applicant’s husband by the agents of the Nigeria Police Force, the DSS, the Nigerian Army, and one Chukwuka Chizorom Ofoegbu (a.k.a Ijele speaks) is illegal, unlawful, oppressive, inhumane and constitutes a breach of the Late Samuel Okoro’s fundamental rights to life, dignity of human person and fair hearing, guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution as amended and African Charter on Human & People Right (Ratification and Enforcement ACT CAP 10 Laws of Federation 1990).
The court further directed the defendants, jointly and severally to tender an unreserved public apology to Mrs. Felicia Okoro in one national and domestic dailies.
The court further awarded against the Nigeria Police Force, the DSS, the Nigerian Army and Chukwuka Chizorom Ofoegbu, jointly and severally, the sum of ₦100 million as general damages and the sum of N50 million as compensation in favour of Mrs. Felicia Okoro- the Applicant, against the defendants jointly and severally for the violation of the fundamental rights of the Applicant’s husband -Late Mr. Samuel Okoro, who was brutally killed, and burnt to ashes during the bloody invasion.
