‘I cried in court’ — Lawyer alleges IPOB suspects pleading guilty out of fear

A human rights lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, has alleged that several individuals facing prosecution over alleged links to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, are pleading guilty out of fear rather than actual culpability.
In a statement posted on X on Tuesday, Ejimakor described his experience at the Federal High Court as “heart-wrenching”, claiming that many of the accused persons had spent more than five years in detention at the Wawa Military Barracks in Niger State without contact with their families.
According to him, some of the detainees informed him that they had been held for years without trial and were willing to plead guilty because they feared being returned to detention or ...