 Detention under decree 2 was in 3-month tranches renewable at expiry.Another draconian decree was the Decree Number 4 which made it a punishable offence for anyone to publish any material deemed embarrassing to a government official, two journalists from The Guardian newspapers, Nduka Irabor and Tunde Thompson were jailed under this decree.On 11 April 1984, NSO operatives arrested Irabor and Thompson.