The Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi, has ordered the immediate release of an Abuja-based businesswoman, Chineze Ozoadibe, who was wrongfully arrested and detained for several months.

 

 

 

Ozoadibe had been apprehended by a sister security agency on suspicion of involvement in illegal oil bunkering and subsequently transferred to the DSS. However, following a thorough investigation, DSS operatives established that her arrest was coincidental and she had no connection to the alleged crime.

 

 

 

 

Convinced of her innocence, the DG directed her release and approved a compensation of N10 million.

 

 

 

 

In addition to Ozoadibe’s release, the DSS has also freed five other individuals who were similarly found to have been wrongfully detained. The DG approved a shared compensation of N10 million for the group.

 

 

 

Sources within the Service said that the release of wrongfully arrested and detained persons, and the award of compensation to them, have become the new culture of the DSS since Mr. Ajayi took over as DG.