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Supplement to Official Gazette Extraordinary

STATE SECURITY (DETENTION OF PERSONS) (No. 10) DECREE 1966 Decree No. 52 [13th July 1966] WHEREAS I, MAJOR-GENERAL JoHNSON THOMAS UiVIUNAK'>VE.AGuiYI IRONSI, 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 Schedule hereto as at the date of commencement hereof are in the interest of the security of N igeria and it is expedient to make this Decree accordingly: NOW THEREFORE THE NATIONAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees that-- I. Commence ment. 1. The persons so specified shall be det…