The State Security Service (SSS) on Thursday urged the Federal High Court in Asaba to validate the arrest and detention of Anthony Okolie who was accused
Mr Okolie was in the custody of the secret police for 10 weeks last year on the directive of the presidency.reported how Mr Okolie was arrested in July 2019 and eventually detained for 10 weeks without trial. Nigerian laws say that a suspect cannot be detained for more than 48 hours without bail or being taken to court.
Speaking at the hearing of the suit in Asaba on February 12, the president’s daughter, through her lawyer, M.E. Sheriff, told the court that Hanan would not be responding to the allegations “because there was no need.” She, however, claimed not to be aware that any arrest was made by the SSS in her 20-paragraph affidavit obtained by PREMIUM TIMES.
He said: “The ‘confessional statement’ has no relevance to this suit whatsoever. There was no place he ever misrepresented to anybody that he is Buhari’s daughter. More so, he never received any money from anybody.”On Thursday, March 12, when the matter came up, the SSS asked the court to validate Mr Okolie’s detention because “the matter is not expected to be brought to court.”
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