DSS releases Veteran Actor, Chiwetalu Agu

By: Ibeh Fortune

Veteran Nollywood Actor, Chiwetalu Agu on Tuesday, October 12, was released by the Department of State Security Services from its custody, four days after the DSS took him into custody from the custody of the Military in Onitsha.

Mr. Agu on October 7th, 2021 was arrested by Soliders of Operation Golden Dawn in the Upper Iweka Area of Onitsha, on donning a long dress made of the colors of the Biafran flag.

The Army accused him of incitement, and of seeking support for the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, a separatist group, seeking independence for the South-east Zone from Nigeria to be called the Republic of Biafra.

But Agu had said he was on a charity drive, giving away N10,000.00 worth of bread to the underprivileged.

On Friday, October 8, he was released by the Army to the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, which leadership intervened. But the DSS took him into custody same day.

On Tuesday, October 12, after another intervention, according to the AGN, he was finally released to its leadership again.

Unlike when he was released by the Army, and still donned his Biafran flag dress, he no longer wore it. Instead, he wore a short-sleeved T-shirt on a black pair of trousers.

Announcing his release in a post, AGN’s Director of Communications, Monalisa Chinda, was full of commendation for AGN’s leadership.

She wrote: “The National President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Ejezie Emeka Rollas, has again secured the release of Actor Chinwetalu Agu from the custody of the DSS.

“On behalf of the Guild, I was at the DSS office with my colleague, the Senior Special Assistant on Military Affairs and Inter Government Relations to the President, Steve Eboh, to receive Mr Agu today.”

It is not known yet under which terms the Actor was released. The Source