The
State Security Service has released a former member of the Presidential
Investigative Committee on Arms Procurement after five months in
detention.
M.Umar
A detained member of the Presidential Investigative Committee on
Arms Procurement, Muhammed Umar, was, Friday, released by the State
Security Service, SSS, after being in their custody for five months.
Umar was alleged to be arrested and detained on the orders of
President Muhammadu Buhari after a damning evidence proved that he
engaged in money laundering and illegal possession of firearms.
A retired air commodore, Umar was earlier granted bail by an Abuja
Division of the Federal High Court in July, with a bond of N100 million,
but the court order was flouted by the SSS who continued to detain him
since then.
However, when Umar’s case came up in court on Thursday, Nnamdi
Dimgba who had been the trial judge on the case before and who had
condemned the continued detention of the defendant vowed not to continue
until the SSS obeyed his earlier bail order.
Following Mr. Dimgba’s threat on Thursday, the SSS released Muhammed Umar.
-Vanguard
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