Nigeria, July 17 -- Civil Society Organizations are demanding the immediate release from detention, of an activist, Emmanuel Acha, who is being held in the Abakaliki Correctional Centre in Ebonyi State.

Acha, who has presently spent 90 days in incarceration, was arrested and detained in the aftermath of a disputed land claim between the Effium and Ezza tribe of Ebonyi State.

He was said to have dragged the government of Ebonyi State to court in suit number FHC/AI/CS/FHR/221/24, which seeks to protect his people from losing their ancestral land to the Ezza.

The Effium and Ezza had historically disputed ownership of land in the Ohaukwu local government area of the state. The state government tried to resolve the conflict through a Bishop...