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Supplement to Official Gazette Extraordinary

STATE SECURITY~(DETENTION OF PERSONS) (No. 9) DECREE 1966 Decree No. 47 [20th June 1966] WHEREAS I, MAJOR-GENERAL JOHNSON THOJ\1AS U;\tuNAKWE AGUlYl lRONSI, Head of the National Military Government, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, am satisfied that the arrest and the detention of the persons specified in the Sd1edulc hereto as at the date hereof are in the interest of the security of N igeria and it is expedient to make this Decree accordingly : NOWTHEREFORETHENATIONAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees that 1. The persons so specified shall be detained for a period not exceeding six mo…