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Supplement to Official Gazette Extraordinary

STATE SECURITY (DETENTION OF PERSONS) (No. 5) DECREE 1966 Decree No. 24 [5th Apri/1966] WHEREAS I, MAJOR-GENERAL JOHNSON THOMAS UMUNAKWE AGUIYI lRONSI, Head of the Federal Military Government, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, am satisfied that the arrest and the detention of the person specified in the Schedule hereto before the date of this Decree are in the interest of the security of Nigeria and it is expedient to make this Decree accordingly : NOW THEREFORE THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERN ME Thereby decrees that 1. The person so specified shall be detained for a period not exceeding six …