Tobenna Obiano: Nigeria's secret Police, DSS has Declared "No Case" on Ubah, What Next?

As written by Tobenna Obiano

We have learnt that after detaining the Chairman, Capital Oil & Gas for 45days and continual failure to respect court orders, the Department of State Security Services has declared Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah of "No Case" and not guilty of any wrongdoing.

Now, what next?

I ask the above because Nigeria has become a lawless nation, an entity where ethnicity, tribalism, religious bigotry and favouritism has become the order of the day. A Government agency failed to obey court orders on several occasions and insisted against a person's will to hold him back and deny him of his freedom, his relationship with his family and friends, denying him full management of his business establishment and many other personal effects for a whole 45days and after all those, he is declared free of any wrongdoing.

A few persons already are suggesting apologies from the DSS, the NNPC and the Nigerian Government but for me, it's just not enough, damages ought to be paid in full, else, now one may choose to return to court and sort for those to be upheld to the later. Some class of established businessmen make as much as a million dollar daily or weekly or monthly. If Ubah falls into that class, can one sum how much he has lost in 45days?

The Nigerian DSS should be thought a lesson wherefrom they be made to learn to be more disciplined, intelligent and democratic in carrying out their duties.

The right path would have been: carry-out an all-inclusive investigation including inviting a person if you need to, gather the very evidences that you may need, make a case out of it and then proceed to a court of competent jurisdiction to demand for an arrest warrant and then do the needful, proceed and arrest the culprit and present him or her in a law court to establish if guilty or not.

Well, the DSS failed in following all these democratic processes and for that act of unprofessionalism, they should be taken to court. It is not enough to take the law into your hands, be ready to face its consequences.

The DSS, NNPC and the Nigerian Government should without fail do the needful to avoid a repeat of this classless nonsense which has turned to a show of shame.

Also, I reliably gathered that someone from the inside blew the whistle and that the whistleblower is an insider with NNPC as it is alleged, what now becomes the fate of this wrong whistleblowing? He or she should be taken to court too for misleading the nation and the DSS with false allegation.

Meanwhile, the huge acceptance of the Ubah person by many during this trial crossed boundaries, persons of different age bracket, ethic groups and variant religious groups. I learnt Catholics went on with spiritual 'bookay' for his release and in less than one week, he regained his freedom. Ifeanyi Ubah's acceptance is unprecedented, who knows, if God has a greater plan for him.

In his aspirations and doing, we wish him well!

Tobenna Obiano