The federal civil servants under the umbrella of Federal Workers Forum, (FWF) and human rights Lawyer, Femi Aborisade have again raised alarm over the continuous detention of the National Coordinator of FWF, Comrade Andrew Emelieze by the Directorate of State Service, DSS, against a court order that stated that he be reminded in Agodi Correctional Center in Ibadan.
‎DECENCY GLOBAL NEWS reports that the Ibadan High court has earlier ordered that Andrew Emelieze be remanded for 14 days in Agodi prison. But the DSS is illegally keeping him in their custody in order to be torturing him and doing some other unlawful and harmful attacks against him.
FWF has therefore intensified her campaign on his release insisting that “this nonsense must stop. Federal Workers must rise now to defend the National Coordinator!!
‎#FreeAndrewEmeliezeNow”.
‎Our correspondent gathered that Comrade Andrew Emelieze was been detained for alleged offences ranging from incitement and Public Disturbance, which are bailable offences.
‎According to the human rights Lawyer, Femi Aborisade, Comrade Emelieze was just been detained in order not to give the Federal civil servants a voice to kick against the federal government’s nonchalant attitude to workers’ welfare.
‎Femi Aborisade also narrated the experience of his lawyers with the DSS.
‎”My client, Comrade Andrew Emelieze who has been championing the struggle for the welfare of workers employed by the Federal Government has been detained again today 3/7/25 by the State Security Service (SSS) in Ibadan.
‎It should be recalled that the Comrade was detained on 30/6/25 and released the following day on 1/7/25.
‎Today, he was invited by the same DSS and detained for no stated reason.
‎According to the report of Mr. Yusuff Akinola, the lawyer from Abope Chambers who went to secure his bail on 1/7/25 and who also accompanied him today to the SSS office, no specific allegation of any offence was made against Comrade Andrew Emelieze. Indeed, according to Andrew Emelieze, his interrogation on 30/6/25 through 1/7/25 revolved round only facts relating to the formation of the Federal Workers Forum.
‎Today, 3/7/25, after he honoured the invitation of the SSS, he was asked to wait for a Senior Officer who never showed up to interrogate him.
‎I call on the SSS to release my client, Comrade Andrew Emelieze. If he has committed any offence known to law, he should be charged to court.”
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