Nigeria, Nov. 3 -- The Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS), Oluwatosin Ajayi, has ordered the release of four suspects arrested over alleged links to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and approved an initial compensation payment of N20 million, with each of them set to receive N5 million.

Security sources disclosed that the suspects, Emele Uduma Ibe, Berefgagha Appah, Ondokeyilemi Aggry and Oyeinmokebebeton Aggry, were arrested in May 2022 in Sampou and Akeddei communities in Kolokuma/Opokuma and Sagbama Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State.

According to one source, investigations found that the four men were misled into believing they would each receive a monthly payment of N100,000 under the Federal...