ABUJA – Some Civil Society Organisations, yesterday, called on the Kogi state government and the Department of State Services to ensure the release of Comrade Austin Okai, a critic of the Governor Yahaya Bello administration, who was taken into security custody on the eve of the February 23, presidential election.They spoke at a joint press briefing, in Abuja, on the plight of the detained opposition leader.
However, he expressed worry over a trending social media post that the government critic was killed and his body dumped along a major road leading to the FCT. “We consider this an infringement of his fundamental human rights and a grave disservice to our constitution and the justice system. In his presentation, Deji Adeyanju, the convener of Concerned Nigerians, raised the alarm that Okai’s continued detention is generating tension within and outside Kogi, adding that all efforts to secure access to him have proved abortive.
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