Enyinnaya Abaribe, senator representing Abia South Senatorial District at the National Assembly has been arrested by operatives of Department of State Security.
Details of the arrest were not immediately clear when the story broke.
But sources closed to him said the arrest might be related to him standing suretee for Nnamdi Kanu, leader of IPOB whose whereabouts is not known.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, had ordered Abaribe, and two others to explain the where about of the embattled Kanu, who they standing as sureties before the court.
Justice Binta Nyako, had, on April 24, 2017, granted bail to the IPOB leader in the five-count charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015, slammed against him alongside three other pro-Biafra agitators, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi and Bright Chimezie by the Federal Government and he (Kanu) failed to report in court on Tuesday, been the day slated for the commencement of his trial along with his co-defendants.
Kanu, who is the first defendant and facing four out of the five count amended charge failed to come to court on Tuesday and and his whereabouts remained unkown, but his three co-defendants were produced in court by prison officials.
Details later