28.11.2014 - 17:14 [ Premium Times (Nigeria) ]

Updated: Despite judge’s order, SSS fails to produce APC staff in court

The five staff of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who were detained by operatives of the State Security Services, SSS, will spend the weekend in jail after the latter ignored the judge’s order to produce them in court.

Following the inability of the SSS to produce the detainees on Friday, the judge adjourned till Monday.

Chinedu Atuche, Fayemi Olaposi, Augustine Onuchukwu, Ebun Ilori, and Esther Enemy we were arrested last Saturday after SSS operatives, accompanied by police officers, raided a building which the APC said was its data office at Allen Avenue, Lagos.

On Wednesday, Mr. Yunusa ordered the SSS and the Nigerian police to produce the detainees in court today.

On Friday, the detained staff were not in court.

There was also no representative of the Nigeria police.