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 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.
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.
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