The rest of the 112 Igbo women arrested and detained in Owerri since August 17 have just been released. They were discharged and acquitted by Chief Magistrate Mrs A Katurumba about 3pm today (August 24, 2018) at a resumed hearing of the case.
According to Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, the Lead Counsel to the women, the matter was re-listed based on the joint request of defense Counsels and the office of Imo Director of Public Prosecutions, which had taken a decision late yesterday to discontinue with the case of the women.
Before the hearing resumed, Barrister Ejimakor had led a team of IPOB Counsels to Owerri Prisons to execute the production warrant for the detainees. When the hearing commenced, the DPP rose in open court and informed the court that the State has no evidence to proceed with the case, whereupon the Magistrate ordered that the women be released immediately.
It will be recalled that 16 of the women were released late yesterday pursuant to a similar application for discontinuance of the case.