SaharaReporters gathered that Fari Shafiu was released on Monday by DSS after they did investigation and discovered that he was not linked to the alleged offence.
Ibrahim Fari Shafiu, a loyalist of Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for Kogi Central Senatorial District who was illegally raided and arrested by the Department of State Services DSS, at Trademore Estate in Abuja in October 2022 has regained his freedom.
SaharaReporters gathered that Fari Shafiu was released on Monday by DSS after they did investigation and discovered that he was not linked to the alleged offence.
"Shafiu was released on Monday by DSS after they did investigation and discovered that he was not linked to the alleged offence," Shafiu's Lawyer, F.S. Jimba, told SaharaReporters.
Shafiu was abducted along one other person by Department of State Services DSS, at Trademore Estate in Abuja in October 2022 when the operatives raided the estate.
Aishat Oyiza, the wife of one of the persons arrested by the DSS at Trademore Estate had cried out to the government to release her husband.
Aishat, who claimed that the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, ordered her husband’s arrest because he left the All Progressives Congress (APC), had said she had not been given access to see or talk to her husband since he was arrested.
The mother of two had said since her husband’s arrest and detention, the DSS has not taken him to court or given him access to a lawyer.
Aishat said her National Youth Service Corps programme had also been put on hold due to the incident.
She had lamented that her brother, Yusuf Abdulrahman, a business administration student of Nasarawa Polytechnic, who was also taken away by the security operatives, had been missing out on his studies.
Aishat had narrated to SaharaReporters how the operatives assaulted her along with other people in the house when Safiu and her brother were arrested.
In a scan report obtained by SaharaReporters, Aisha had, due to the trauma, been confirmed that she lost her twelve weeks’ pregnancy.
The report signed by one Dr Yaqub Ibraheem also noted that Aisha may need further medical attention to prevent complications to her uterus.