Finally, Chocolate city boss, Audu Maikori has gained his freedom after being detained for 24 hours . His personal assistant, Edward Israel-Ayide reve
Finally, Chocolate city boss, Audu Maikori has gained his freedom after being detained for 24 hours . His personal assistant, Edward Israel-Ayide revealed this when he took to Twitter to announce that the lawyer has finally been released by the officers of the Nigeria Police Force who whisked him away and also thanking everyone who expressed concern about his detention.
Similarly, former minister, Oby Ezekwesili revealed that she had pleaded with the Kaduna State governor, Mallam El-Rufai on the necessity to free Audu and allow all sides to learn the right lesson and end the unfortunate development. She added that she hopes both parties will find points of collaboration on Southern Kaduna after the sad episode.
The Nigerian Police had arrested Audu on Friday over ‘inciting comments’ he made on social media on Southern Kaduna killings. In a series of tweets on January 23, he alleged that five students of Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya, Kafanchan, were murdered by Fulani herdsmen. He had tweeted that his driver’s younger brother and five others students of college of education Gidan Waya were ambushed and killed by herdsmen in Southern Kaduna.
But the school’s management denied that any of its students was killed. Kaduna State also condemned the misinformation and vowed to prosecute rumour peddlers. Before his arrest, however, Maikori apologised for the wrong information contained in his tweets, claiming that he was misled by his driver, who himself was an indigene of Southern Kaduna. The driver, he said, was handed over to the police after he (Maikori) decided to further investigate the story to “ensure that all the facts of the case and evidence were presented to the authorities.”
Southern Kaduna, for a few weeks, was a scene of bloody conflicts between suspected Fulani herdsmen and indigenes of the area with scores of the residents killed. The conflicts forced the state government to impose a 24-hour curfew on Zangon Kataf which was only relaxed on February 4th.
