BREAKING: DSS Frees Senator Abaribe

The Department of State Security (DSS) has released Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, lawmaker representing Abia-south senatorial district in the National Assembly.

The senator’s spokesman, Uche Awom, who confirmed this to The Whistler on Tuesday, said lawyers and associates of the Abia lawmaker processed the paperwork for his release at the DSS headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday evening.

Abaribe was arrested by operatives of the DSS in Abuja last Friday for undisclosed reasons.

He was picked up at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, when he visited the hotel to have his hair cut.

He was arraigned before Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja on his being a surety for leader of proscribed leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

Abaribe and two others had stood as a surety as part of the bail conditions for Kanu, whose whereabouts has remained unknown.

In her ruling, Justice Nyako said she could not order Abaribe’s release because she was not the judge who ordered his arrest.

The judge held that the circumstances that resulted in Abaribe’s recent arrest were not before her.

Abaribe was escorted to Court by the DSS which immediately took him back to its headquarters after the hearing.

Awom said shortly after the court hearing Abaribe’s lawyers received a phone call from DSS inviting them to come and process the senator’s release.

According to him, the Abia lawmaker was released on an SSS administrative bond that requires him to produce any civil servant on the rank of a Director with residence in Abuja.