“Operation Golden Dawn Targeted as IPOB Supporters”- Kanu’s Lawyer

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel for arrested Indigenous People of Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu, has said that the goal of the Nigerian Army’s recent ‘Exercise Golden Dawn’ in the South-East is to “whisk away” notable supporters of the Biafran movement.

The lawyer also slammed security agents’ “inhumane treatment and degradation” of veteran actor Chiwetalu Agu, claiming the actor has been denied access to his counsel.

Ejiofor urged that Agu be released immediately from the custody of the Department of State Services, stating that Igbo attorneys “must take proper steps authorized under our laws to ensure that such occurrence is nipped in the bud.”

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In a statement issued on Saturday, the IPOB leader’s lawyer decried the detention of the Nollywood actor, claiming that the true purpose of ‘Exercise Golden Dawn,’ initiated on Monday by the 302 Artillery Regiment General Support in the South-East, was being revealed.’

Ejiofor’s statement was titled, ‘Arrest of Chief Chiwetalu Agu by lawless Nigerian soldiers, release, and subsequent re-arrest by the operatives of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) and his continued illegal detention without access to his lawyers and relatives’.

“It is worthy to note that the suspected motives behind the real mission of these untamed soldiers who are presently occupying our land under the guise of ‘Operation Golden Dawn’ is being uncovered, and will be ultimately uncovered in the coming days,” he said.

“Hear it today, that this is another round of ‘Operation Python Dance’ in disguise. There is no illusion about this.

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“Intelligence available to us is irresistibly alluding to the fact that some prominent persons from this side of the divide, ostensibly those not in the good books of the Establishment are on the radar of these invaders, awaiting to be whisked away at any slightest opportunity, during this coded operation and under the guise of providing security.”

“Hence, I am most candidly advising our dear brothers and sisters to thread with utmost caution during this trying period. Please do not take any opportunity for granted, as these untamed men are here on a special mission,” he said.

Meanwhile, said they had handed Chiwetalu Agu over to the DSS. The Army had also said the actor “dressed in a very well-known attire of the proscribed group”, adding that he was being questioned.

Agu denied the allegations in a viral video, claiming that his attire was civil dress with an image of a rising sun, not Biafra.On Friday, the Army turned over the actor to the DSS.

The DSS’s spokesman, Peter Afunanya, acknowledged that Agu is in the custody of the secret police and stated that the law would be followed to the letter.