According to Sahara Reporters, Okah who is the brother of
Henry Okah escaped on Friday, June 25 by scaling the high fence of the prison
walls, Charles Okah has been on trial
for the 2010 Independence Day bombing that killed 27 people during the country’s
50th independence anniversary. The escape happened around 7:30 pm and he
reportedly jumped the prison walls with another inmate. Henry who is the senior
Okah has since been convicted by a court in South Africa. MEND which used to be
a notorious militancy group eventually accepted the federal government’s
amnesty and stopped the destruction of pipelines and kidnap of oil workers.
Okah infamously tried to commit suicide in court in 2015 after he addressed
Justice Gabriel Kolawole and claimed that former president, Goodluck Jonathan
was responsible for his travails. He had said: “I have been incarcerated for
about five years now, and I have a family to cater for. “My children would
grow up without feeling the warmth of their father. I am tired of this endless
trial.” Earlier this year, Okah embarked on a hunger strike to protest against
harassment by officials of the Kuje prison. In a letter through Timi
Okponipere, his counsel, Okah had addressed the minister of interior,
Abdulraman Dambazau informing him of the danger his death will pose to the
whole country. “At the time of writing this letter, our client is as emaciated
as a bean pole on account of the hunger strike he has embarked upon, to draw
global attention to his plight.” “Literally and figuratively speaking, our
client is virtually a dead man. If our client dies in prison custody, the
entire world, particularly the Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta where our client
hails from, shall rise in unison against President Muhammadu Buhari’s
government, even as we concede the fact that, our client’s ordeal began during
the tenure of former president Goodluck Jonathan, a fellow Ijaw,” More details
on his escape soon.
Source: Naij.com
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