DSS frees 4 suspected IPOB members after years in detention, pays N20m compensation

The Department of State Services, DSS, has released 4 persons who were arrested and detained implicit alleged links to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

The concealed constabulary besides paid the victims N20 cardinal arsenic compensation for wrongful detention.

The Director-General of the DSS, Oluwatosin Ajayi, ordered their contiguous merchandise aft a thorough reappraisal showed they had nary transportation with IPOB activities.

The freed suspected IPOB members are Emele Uduma Ibe, Berefgagha Appah, Ondokeyilemi Aggry and Oyeinmokebebeton Aggry.

According to the DSS, the detainees were arrested successful mistake and had been successful custody for years earlier the reappraisal sheet exonerated them.

Ajayi has reportedly been connected a clean-up ngo since assuming office, ordering the merchandise and compensation of respective persons wrongfully detained by the Service.

Recall that the DSS brag precocious freed a Kaduna husbandman detained for 2 years implicit Boko Haram allegations and paid him N3 million, portion besides doubling the compensation of a Jos businessman mistakenly changeable by operatives successful 2016 from N10m to N20m.

Similarly, successful November past year, the DSS brag directed that Kenneth Okechukwu Nwafor, who was picked up successful July 2022 for alleged IPOB links, beryllium released. He arsenic approved N5 cardinal arsenic compensation for him.

Prior to Nwafor's freedom, 3 different men from Abia State - Augustine Udemba, Nelson Onyedikachi Udemba and Ifesinachi Eze - had been freed, with N5 cardinal compensation each.

Earlier successful October 2025, Ajayi ordered the merchandise of an Abuja-based businesswoman, Mrs Chineze Ozoadibe, and approved N10 cardinal compensation for her.

DSS frees 4 suspected IPOB members aft years successful detention, pays N20m compensation