BREAKING: Ex-Imo Deputy Gov Released From Detention

• After being detained for a period of nine days, the former Deputy Governor of Imo State has been released from custody.

• Irona was released on bail following an order from the Abuja federal high court.

• Irona was on Thursday last week remanded in Owerri prison custody after he was arraigned by the police on a three-count charge bordering on treason.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Gerald Irona, the immediate past deputy governor of Imo State has been released from Owerri prison after spending nine days in custody.

According to Walter Duru, the spokesperson for Irona, a federal high court in Abuja has directed the release of the ex-deputy governor of the state on bail. This information was conveyed in a statement on Friday.

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He disclosed that the authorities at Owerri prison had since complied with the court order.
Duru said “Former deputy Governor of Imo State, Gerald Irona is free. His release was ordered by a Federal High Court in FCT, Abuja and the Nigerian Correctional Service had long complied.”

“I will issue a statement later today. Good morning and many thanks for your support. Imo must be rebuilt.”

Irona was on Thursday last week remanded in Owerri prison custody after he was arraigned by the police on a three-count charge bordering on treason.

The charges preferred against him by the police “reads that you Hon Gerald Irona sometime in January 2020, at Owerri in the Owerri magistrate district, did conspired with others now at large, to commit felony to wit: treason and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 37(2) of the criminal code, cap c 38, law of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, as applicable in Imo state.

“That you Hon Gerald Irona sometime in January 2020, at Owerri in the Owerri magistrate district, did make several utterances to the effect that you will make Imo state ungovernable and immediately afterwards hoodlums levied several attacks on Imo state with the intent to intimidate or overawe the governor of Imo state and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 37 of the criminal code, cap, c 38, law of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, as applicable in Imo state.

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“That you Hon Gerald Irona on the 15th day of January 2020, at Owerri in the Owerri magistrate district, do converted to your own use two land cruiser jeep (V8 and V6) and one Toyota Hilux vehicle valued four hundred and Ninety three million naira property of Imo state government thereby committed an offence punishable under section 390 (9) of the criminal code, cap c 38, laws of the federation of Nigeria, 2004, as applicable in Imo state.”

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