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DSS releases Chiwetalu Agu after search on phone showed nothing incriminating

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DSS releases Chiwetalu Agu after search on phone showed nothing incriminating

 

Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has revealed that the Department of State Services (DSS) released veteran Nollywood actor, Chiwetalu Agu, after a rigorous search of his phones.

Ozekhome, in a statement on Tuesday, said the DSS did not find anything incriminating on the actor’s phones and subsequently released him from its headquarters in Abuja.

In his statement titled, ‘Chiwetalu Agu Released By DSS’, Ozekhome said his client argued that he had committed no known offence, as he was merely wearing an attire with the rising sun and distributing ten thousand naira worth of bread he had bought, to the poor and less-privileged.

The lawyer said his chambers took up the case after being briefed by the Actors Guild of Nigeria.

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“Several interactions were held by the chambers with the DSS operatives, who were, however, very civil and very cooperative.

“Agu was released this (Tuesday) evening to Steve Eboh and Monolisa Chinda (Director of Media, Actors Guild of Nigeria), by the DSS at their headquarters in Abuja, after a careful search on his phones showed nothing incriminating.

The veteran actor was arrested last Thursday by the Nigerian Army in Onitsha, Anambra State, for wearing Biafran colours, allegedly associating with the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and for inciting members of the public.

The Army later transferred the actor to the DSS on Friday and he was flown to the headquarters of the secret police in Abuja, where he was detained and interrogated until Tuesday.

Agu’s arrest by the army and subsequent hand over to the DSS had been widely criticised and condemned by Nigerians who saw the actions of the security agencies as ethnic profiling.

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