Nigeria: Militancy - Bayelsa Court Orders DSS to Arraign Detained Journalists

20 April 2017

A Bayelsa High Court presided over by Justice Ineiye Aganaba has ordered the Department of State Security (DSS) to charge a journalist and publisher of the indigenous newspaper known as the Weekly Source.

Chief Abiri, was whisked away from his office at Ekeki, Yenagoa, by DSS officials on July 21,last year and was accused of being the leader of the militant group known as the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Front (JDLF).

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