– Saraki’s aide reportedly starves self in DSS detention
– Family members say this act is beginning to take its toll on his health
– Demand immediate and unconditional release of their son
Like Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra, Ikenga Ugochinyere, an aide to Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has reportedly refused to eat.
Ugochinyere, who is the senior special assistant to the embattled Senate president on youth and students matters, has been in detention after being arrested by officers of the Department of State Security (DSS) and has refused to take any food presented by the security agency, Vanguard reports.
According to the family, at a press conference held on Wednesday, April 28, the barrister has refused any food or water brought to him by the DSS, a situation which is said to behaving an adverse effect on his health already.
Obinna Ikeagwuonu, who is a sibling of the detained activist, read a prepared text to newsmen, saying they have also not been allowed to take food or water to his brother.
They are now demanding the unconditional and immediate release of the son with the family said teeming youths across the country also calling to know the fate of the man.
“Unofficial information reaching his family confirmed that Barrister Ikenga was interrogated on two issues-a petition authored by the Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Barr. Solomon Dalung, who was indefinitely suspended from the Board of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, a body over which Ikenga is President,” the family informed.
Recall tha t family members of Senate president’s aide raised alarm over his arrest by the DSS.
Ikenga had not been seen or heard from since he entered into the premises of the DSS on Monday, April 25, following an invitation for interrogation by the agency, according to a statement by his brother Obinna Ikeagwuonu.
– Family members say this act is beginning to take its toll on his health
– Demand immediate and unconditional release of their son
Like Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra, Ikenga Ugochinyere, an aide to Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has reportedly refused to eat.
Ugochinyere, who is the senior special assistant to the embattled Senate president on youth and students matters, has been in detention after being arrested by officers of the Department of State Security (DSS) and has refused to take any food presented by the security agency, Vanguard reports.
According to the family, at a press conference held on Wednesday, April 28, the barrister has refused any food or water brought to him by the DSS, a situation which is said to behaving an adverse effect on his health already.
Obinna Ikeagwuonu, who is a sibling of the detained activist, read a prepared text to newsmen, saying they have also not been allowed to take food or water to his brother.
They are now demanding the unconditional and immediate release of the son with the family said teeming youths across the country also calling to know the fate of the man.
“Unofficial information reaching his family confirmed that Barrister Ikenga was interrogated on two issues-a petition authored by the Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Barr. Solomon Dalung, who was indefinitely suspended from the Board of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, a body over which Ikenga is President,” the family informed.
Recall tha t family members of Senate president’s aide raised alarm over his arrest by the DSS.
Ikenga had not been seen or heard from since he entered into the premises of the DSS on Monday, April 25, following an invitation for interrogation by the agency, according to a statement by his brother Obinna Ikeagwuonu.