Abbas Haruna, a naval officer locked up in 2018 on a senior army officer’s order despite the Armed Forces Act (2004) limiting punishment for insubordination to two years imprisonment, has been released.
Ordinary Ahmed Isah, the founder of Brekete, a radio and television programme focused on human rights protection, announced this on Friday.
In the Brekete Family Live Programme live-streamed on its YouTube page, Isah said: “I have good and bad news. The good news is, even though they (the military) have not said it officially, Abbas has been released. And according to what I heard, they have dismissed him. The bad news is the dismissal.”
This development came after the news of Haruna’s six-year detention went viral, and the House of Representatives Committee on Navy and the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) vowed to probe the matter.
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The naval officer and his wife appeared on the Brekete Family programme on Friday, with the wife breaking down in tears as she expressed her gratitude for her husband’s release.
No official statement was also found on it website and X page regarding the matter.
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