The former aide-de-camp to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Ojogbane Adegbe has been released and handed over to the Nigerian Army, Punch Newspaper reports. This is coming barely 48 hours after Adegbe sued the EFCC for N100m in damages for his ‘unlawful detention’. In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, his counsel, Ogwu Onoja (SAN), urged the court to declare that his client’s arrest and continued detention by the EFCC since February 11 was unconstitutional and violated his right to personal liberty guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution. In its response, counsel to the anti-graft agency said the ex-ADC was being held on the instructions of the Nigerian Army. The judge, Justice Yusuf Halilu, has fixed the ruling for March 1.
