Detention: Edo woman sues DSS, Lebanese, demands N350m

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A Benin, Edo State-based single mother, Ms Odegua Okojie, on Thursday filed a suit against a Lebanese businessman, Charles Makhoul, and the Department of State Services over what she called her illega

l detention for nine days.

Also joined in the suit, marked FHC/B/cs/120/2019, is the Director-General of the DSS and the Director, Edo State Command of the agency. She stated that she was taken into custody at night, while her two-year-old daughter cried and wandered about all through the night before she was recovered from the roadside the following morning by her teacher, who came to take her to school.

She pointed out that the illegal detention from July 9 to 16, 2019, was not only an infringement on her fundamental human rights, but also unlawful and unconstitutional.

 

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