‘I cried in court’ — Lawyer alleges IPOB suspects pleading guilty out of fear

A quality rights lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, has alleged that respective individuals facing prosecution implicit alleged links to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, are pleading blameworthy retired of fearfulness alternatively than existent culpability.

In a connection posted connected X connected Tuesday, Ejimakor described his acquisition astatine the Federal High Court arsenic “heart-wrenching”, claiming that galore of the accused persons had spent much than 5 years successful detention astatine the Wawa Military Barracks successful Niger State without interaction with their families.

According to him, immoderate of the detainees informed him that they had been held for years without proceedings and were consenting to plead blameworthy due to the fact that they feared being returned to detention oregon had been promised lighter punishment.

Ejimakor said helium obtained interaction details of immoderate of the detainees’ relatives and reached retired to them, adding that galore became affectional upon learning that their loved ones were inactive alive.

He further alleged that immoderate detainees whose beingness had antecedently been denied by information agencies were among those brought earlier the court.

The lawyer questioned the fairness of the judicial process, arguing that blameworthy pleas made nether fearfulness of prolonged detention could not magnitude to justice.

Parts of the station read, “It was a bosom wrenching momen...