In order to obtain more evidence, highly armed police officers and Department of State Service (DSS) officials are said to have raided the home of the arrested Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate, Frederick Nwajagu, for the second time.
According to news sources, Nwajagu was arrested on Saturday morning by the DSS and Police following the publication of a 49-second video on Twitter in which he threatened to summon members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to secure assets of Igbo people in Lagos State.
Nwajagu was apprehended at a hotel in Ejigbo after a midnight raid by Police and DSS agents who came at his palace in Ajao Estate but did not find him.
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The Igbo chieftain had been taken to the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba, by security operatives.
According to reports, the DSS and heavily armed police officers returned to his home on Monday with two white pickup Hilux vans to conduct a search.
Upon returning to SCIID, Panti, they performed extensive searches that lasted over four hours.
According to eyewitnesses, Nwajagu took the police officers and DSS personnel into his palace while handcuffed. It was discovered that the security guards left his palace with no evident indication of wrongdoing.
According to police sources, Nwajagu was arrested after his statement that members of IPOB would be invited to Lagos if the damage of his kinsmen’s properties continued.
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According to reports, security agencies and top government officials in Abuja and Lagos State were alarmed by Nwajagu’s public speech and the subsequent response as it trended online, prompting the demand that he be arrested and investigated.
According to one of the individuals, plans to fly him to Abuja or take him straight to court after a thorough investigation of his palace were hurriedly revised.
He added that this was due to authorities’ inability to find any incriminating material in his home on Monday.
“We have plans of even rounding up all the members of his cabinet in Ajoa Estate and anybody remotely or otherwise, connected with the volatile and provocative statement he made, but it will depend on the outcome of our subsequent investigation,” the source said.
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According to reports, investigations will continue while he is detained at the SCIID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos, to determine whether his threat was genuine, well-founded, or a fluke, especially since the Federal Government has prohibited IPOB from operating in the South-East.
Dr. Gerald Abonyi, speaking on behalf of Nwajagu lawyers, said they had written a strongly worded request to Lagos State Commissioner of Police Idowu Owohunwa for his release on administrative bail.
He stated that his client had cooperated fully with the police and should be allowed bail after spending more than 72 hours in detention.
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