The Department of State Services (DSS) has released
Ifeanyi Ubah, managing director of Capital Oil and Gas
Limited, after keeping him in detention for more than
five weeks.
Ikechukwu Onyia, an aide of the businessman, who
disclosed this to TheCable on Tuesday, said he was
released on Monday night.
The DSS had arrested Ubah over alleged diversion of
petroleum products worth N11bn.
While in detention, the agency said Ubah “undermined
national security and public order” through his
conduct.
The businessman, however, filed a lawsuit against the
security agency for detaining him “unlawfully”.
Two federal high courts had made contradictory
orders on the detention of Ubah.
A federal high court in Lagos ordered the DSS to
release Ubah.
Mohammed Idris, the presiding judge, ordered the
security agency to release him “unconditionally within
48 hours”.
Shortly after, a federal high court in Abuja, in another
ruling, gave the agency a go-ahead to detain him for
another 14 days.
Yusuf Halilu, the presiding judge of the Abuja court,
extended Ubah’s detention order following an ex-parte
application filed by the DSS.
TheCable
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