A High Court judge has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Army of behaving as if the country is still under military dictatorship and ordered the immediate release of a colonel detained without charge for nearly three months.
Judge Yusuf Haliru said that the continued detention of Col. Nicholas Ashinze was illegal.
Ashinze was aide to former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki, who was also arrested in December on allegations of diverting $2.9 billion meant to buy arms to fight the Boko Haram insurgency.
Three different courts have ordered Dasuki’s release on bail but President Muhammadu Buhari has said he must stay in jail.
Some lawyers have accused Buhari of using his fight against corruption to settle political scores.
Human rights groups say some judges and lawyers complicit in the illegal detentions of suspects are corrupt.
-Yahoo
