Lawyers has secured the release of Mr. Edeh Tochukwu, a man shot and detained by Nigeria’s security agency, the Department of State (DSS), during a 2020 protest calling for an end to police brutality in Nigeria.
Mr. Tochukwu, who was shot by the police, was later arrested at a hospital in Enugu, where he was receiving medical treatment.
Pecohub received report of his release on Wednesday, September 7, 2022.
The legal team of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as a separatist group of which he was said to be a member, secured his release.
According to the IPOB’s legal team, the group perfected all of Mr. Tochukwu’s bail conditions prior to his release on Wednesday.