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Families of people in illegal Nigerian Navy detention count losses

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5 years ago

May 1, 2019

More than seven months since the arrest and illegal detention of 15 Nigerians, including three top military officers, by the Nigerian Navy without prosecution, distraught family members of the victims said their patience is running out.

To underscore the anguish families of the detainees have been going through, foremost human rights activist and lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, wrote to the Nigerian government on behalf of the detained persons demanding their release or prosecution, if there is enough justification to do so.

The Nigerian government is yet to make any public statement on their illegal detention.

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