Abiri: IYC calls for arraignment of other detained N-Deltans

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YENAGOA—Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, worldwide, has called for the immediate release or arraignment in court of other Niger Delta youths in the detention of the Directorate of State Service, DSS, following the arraignment of Yenagoa-based journalist, Mr. Jones Abiri.

Abiri has been in DSS detention for more than two years.

It, however, took the massive campaign of Amnesty International, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, human rights organisations, regional pressure groups and the efforts of human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, to force the DSS to hurriedly charge Mr. Abiri before an Abuja Magistrate’s court on July 27, 2018.

Factional President of IYC, Mr Eric Omare, in a statement, said there are several other Niger Delta youths who were arrested in connection with Niger Delta Avengers and are currently languishing in DSS detention facilities.

The statement said, “The IYC wishes to alert the world that apart from Mr. Abiri, there are several other Niger Delta youths who were arrested in connection with the Niger Delta Avengers inspired hostilities in the Niger Delta and who are in the detention of DSS without charging them to court.”

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