A high court in Owerri on Friday evening released, unconditionally, the 114 women suspected to be members of the outlawed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra.
The ladies were remanded by a magistrate’s court in Owerri on Monday and Thursday respectively, when they were arrested and arraigned via the Police for demanding to understand the whereabouts of missing IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kalu.
The bail application filed by the lead counsel to the women, Ejiofor Uche, was not opposed, because the Police had no representation in court.
The court had granted the bail application, and freed the women unconditionally.
Their launch sparked off wild jubilation at the court premises and inside Owerri, the state capital.
The Police prosecutor, Theaddus okay, informed our correspondent that the Police had no representation due to the fact the problem had been referred to the state ministry of justice for legal counsel and decision.
He stated that the Police had no powers in whatever decision that was taken eventually.
The state Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, told our correspondent on the phone that the discharge of the women became sequel to an instruction given to him and the state commissioner for justice by the state governor, Rochas Okorocha.
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