IPOB Trump's Rally: Court Has Discharge and Acquit 45 IPOB Members

45 Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB who were arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital on two-count charges of conspiracy to commit treason and treasonable felony have all being released. 

The 45 defendants are part of many others who were arrested by Nigerian security operatives during Biafra Trump solidarity rally on the inauguration day of the US President on 20th January, 2017.

According to the Chief Magistrate, Andrew Jaja, “I have no other reason to detain this innocent people here anymore, they are free of crime and are lawful people, I hereby discharge them all with immediate effect.”

Biafra Writers correspondence on ground is reportedly on his way to the prison alongside the released members to get their belongings as at the time of writing this report.

The decision of magistrate Jaja came few days after IPOB was declared “not unlawful” by Justice Binta Nyako of the federal high court Abuja, during the last court session involving the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu and the federal government of Nigeria.