EX-DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF IMO IS NOW FREE AFTER NINE DAYS.

Gerald Irona, the recently-retired deputy governor of Imo State, has been released from Owerri jail, our correspondent has learned.

In a brief statement on Friday, Irona’s spokesman, Walter Duru, stated that a federal high court in Abuja had ordered the former state’s second-ranking citizen to be released on bond.

He said that since then, the Owerri jail administration had cooperated with the court ruling.

Former Imo State vice governor Gerald Irona is free, according to Duru. The Nigerian Prisons Service has long already cooperated with the Federal High Court’s order to release him in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.

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Irona was arraigned by the police on a three-count charge that had treasonous overtones on Thursday of last week, and he was then remanded in Owerri prison custody.

“You Hon Gerald Irona did conspire with others now at large, at Owerri in the Owerri magistrate district, sometime in January 2020, 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,” according to the charges brought against him by the police.

“That you Hon. Gerald Irona committed an offense punishable under section 37 of the criminal code, cap, c38, law of the federation of Nigeria, 2004, as applicable in Imo state, sometime in January 2020 at Owerri in the Owerri magistrate district, where you made several statements to the effect that you will make Imo state ungovernable.