Okolie disclosed to The Guardian on Monday that he purchased the MTN cell phone sim card in 2018, two years before his capture.
He was captured on Monday, July 22 at Nnedisi Road, Asaba, Delta State.
Okolie was taken to Abuja by the DSS agents and was kept in authority until his discharge in December 2019.
Endeavors to get DSS response to the claim demonstrated unsuccessful as telephone calls and an instant message to its representative Peter Afunanya were not quickly reacted to.
Portraying Okolie's trial, his legal counselor Tope Akinyode said Okolie was kept for more than 15 weeks by agents of the Nigerian mystery police. Akinyode set that "the sim card got excess and was reused to the market available to be purchased (after Hanan quit utilizing it)."
"Okolie legally purchased the sim card following quite a while of excess obscure to him who the past proprietor was," Akinyode asserted.
Akinyode said Okolie's confinement was unlawful on the grounds that he has the receipt for the acquisition of the sim card and every other report relating to the sim card.
Okolie's legal counselor disclosed to The Guardian that in attempting to get his customer captured, the DSS checked his phone discussion and at first captured an old individual who has an association with him until they later discovered Okolie.
"To begin with, every one of the laws has settled that capture as a substitute is taboo and illegal in Nigeria," Akinyode stated,
"Additionally, the capture of the injured individual over a property which he legitimately got is absurdly illicit similarly as the long detainment without preliminary adds up to unlawful confinement."
His case is bolstered by Nigerian law. By prudence of the arrangements of segment 35(5) of the 1999 Constitution (as corrected), area 483 of the criminal strategy Act and segment 42 of the criminal method Code, the police should not keep any individual for over 24 hours without a warrant from a justice.
Akinyode unveiled that Okolie will continue to court to document a claim against the DSS and Ms. Hanan Buhari, requesting remuneration for the rupture of his central human rights.
"We are looking for lawful change on the issue," Akinyode revealed to The Guardian. "His (Okolie) confinement for 10 weeks is unlawful and we won't acknowledge such."
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