The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the MASSOB members were arraigned on a one-count charge of waging war against the state on Friday.
But at Monday’s hearing, Mr Adams Saleh, the prosecution counsel and Officer in-Charge of Anambra Police Command’s Legal Department, made an application for the case to be struck out.
Counsel to MASSOB, Chukwuemeka Odimegbe and Destiny Nnagbo, had argued that their clients were innocent of the charge against them.
Giving her ruling based on the prosecution counsel’s application, Chief Magistrate Ngozi Okoye discharged and acquitted the accused.
She, however, advised the MASSOB members to be of good behaviour and avoid illegal acts.
Speaking on the ruling, Odimegbe said that the group had remained non-violent in carrying out its programmes.
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