The supporting affidavit added that the suit in Abuja was therefore discontinued and a fresh one with suit number – FHC/CS/UY/61/2017 – was filed by the applicant before the Uyo Division of the court. It stated that after the case was heard on merit, Justice Ojukwu made an order on May 24, 2017, directing the DSS, Akwa Ibom State Command to release the applicant and pay compensatory damages of N5m to him on account of the agency’s detention of the applicant from October 14, 2016 till the date the judgment was delivered. With the DSS having allegedly failed to obey the court judgment, Chimezie, therefore prayed in his motion for, “An order committing the Director, Department of State Services, Akwa Ibom State Command, Uyo, to prison for having disobeyed the order of this honourable court made on May 24, 2017, which ordered the release of the applicant on bail and the payment of N5, 000,000.00 (five million naira) only as compensatory damages to the applicant.” Meanwhile, the DSS failed to produce Chimezie when Kanu and others’ trial in which he was recently joined as a co-defendant came up before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja on October 17. The trial could not also go on because of Kanu’s absence. Justice Nyako adjourned until October 20, ordering Kanu’s sureties to produce him in court on that date or face the consequences.

The Nigerian Air Force has deployed two attack helicopters in the ongoing military exercise, Operation Crocodile Smile II, in the South-West and South-South regions.
It was learnt that the aircraft, Agusta LUH and EC135 helicopters, would be joined later on with the Alpha Jets and the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance platforms.
This was disclosed by the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, in an interview on Friday.
Operation Crocodile Smile II was launched last Friday, October 13, in Lagos State by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. -Gen. Tukur Buratai, and would last for four weeks.
The exercise, which covers 2, 6 and 81 Divisions of the Army, had been threatened by groups, including the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, which claimed that the operation had a political objective to harass people in the regions.
The 81 Division on Tuesday announced that it arrested 40 suspects for various offences in Lagos and Ogun states.
The spokesperson for the 81 Division, Lt.-Col. Olaolu Daudu, who said in Lagos that the suspects included drug peddlers, cult members and car snatchers, noted that some of them had been handed over to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
The NAF Spokesman, Adesanya, said on Friday that the air force had also deployed fighter aircraft for the operation.
He said, “We have deployed air assets to the army operation. We deployed Agusta 109LUH helicopter and the ATR-42. At the appropriate time, the ISR platforms and the Alpha jet will be called in.”