The Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, released 100 inmates of the Agodi Correctional Centre Ibadan on Monday and Tuesday.
The security men are said to have vandalised two Range Rover vehicles parked in their workshop and stole some parts valued N710,000.
Counsel to the plaintiff told the court that the police arrested and detained his client between December 14 and December 28, 2022, without charging him to court.
The victims, consisting of two adult males and 10 pregnant women, including teenagers, were allegedly brainwashed forcefully kept in the factories by the operators.
Residents of Awka, the Anambra capital, have decried what they call the “arbitrary pricing” of petrol by marketers in the state.
Before his arrest on January 8, the activist had on December 19, 2022, condemned the SSS in a media briefing for its attempt to arrest CBN governor Godwin Emefiele.
The complaints bordered on sexual and gender violence, threat to life, harmful cultural practices, withcraft, female genital mutilation and abandonment of family responsibility.
The police had said that “miscreants masquerading as Yoruba Nation Agitators” shot police officers and destroyed two police vehicles.
The defendant, on the pretence that he wanted to buy cow skin, had dragged the 12-year-old seller into his room and molested her.
The Lagos-based lawyer said the award of SAN should be based on merit and service to the bar.
