The immediate-past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), on Thursday told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that his continued detention by the Department of State Services was scaring off foreign investors from the country.
Dasuki, who spoke through his lawyer, Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), said his continued detention was a violation of the court’s order that granted him bail on September 1, 2015 and another that permitted him to travel abroad for medical treatment on November 3, 2015.
The ex-NSA, who is being prosecuted before Justice Adeniyi Ademola on four counts of money laundering and illegal possession of firearms, has been in the custody of the DSS since December 29, 2015.
Operatives of the DSS re-arrested him on December 29, 2015, shortly after his release from Kuje Prison in Abuja, upon fulfilling the bail conditions imposed on him by two other judges of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja.
Daudu on Thursday urged Justice Ademola to stop the trial, prohibit the Federal Government from further prosecuting his client and make an order discharging the ex-NSA until the orders of the court were complied with.
While arguing his client’s application which was filed on February 11, 2016, Daudu said without being given access to his client by the DSS to prepare for the ex-NSA’s defence, the trial, if allowed to go on, would not be fair.
The lawyer added that his client’s continued detention would give foreign investors the impression that Nigeria was a country where court orders were not respected.
Daudu said, “The most obvious evidence of the breach of the orders of the court is that the defendant is still in custody, brought to this court by the Department of State Services.
“There is no magic or anything that can be said to dispute that. The effect of his (Dasuki’s) continued incarceration is that the orders, as contained in Exhibit A, has been flouted by the prosecution who wants the matter to continue.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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your detention K!!!! lie lie..... die in jail 4 all we care Malam Oleh!!!!!
ReplyDeleteATM Machine is talking!!!!
ReplyDeletehe is scheming’ to evade trial
ReplyDeleteThe Principle coordinator of foreign investors in Nigeria is still in Kuje prison and his name is Sambo Dasuki, so please release him and exonerate him from every crime he has committed, what a Supper Story?
ReplyDeleteWe hear and belive this kind of panted lies in the past just not this days because u people forced us to shine our eyes even when we are snoring lol.
well come to think of it, will you invest in a country with no respect of rule of law...then one day, someone can come and close your business or injure it badly and you cant sue or do anything, because there is no rule of law! Coupled with all the bad image that baba is giving Nigerians outside Nigeria. I think that's not so good to the ears of foreign investors...or who wants to employ criminally minded people in his company that he will set up in the midst of criminally minded Nigerians?!
ReplyDeleteThe dumbest comment I've read of recent. It's never your fault. It's the fault of Nigerian eye who have people like you the opportunity to comment.
DeleteThe greatest danger to the safety of your investment is not violation of the rule of law. It is corruption in government MDAs and the society as a whole. That is what Dasuki represents. I would expect an innocent man to take his plea immediately and even appeal for accelerated hearing. Does the antics of people like Dasuki show that of an innocent person? Did we not see how Saraki wasted time up to supreme court on technicalities just to prolong his trial? On a more serious note, is the court influenced by unsubstantiated sentiments like Dasuki's claim? Which investor has complained specifically that it is Dasuki's detention that is discouraging her to come and invest? Since there was absolute respect for the rule of law when Dasuki and his colleagues were in govt (as he would like us to accept), how come we did not have investors flooding the country during the last 16 years? Make we hear word now.
DeleteVery funny, imagine wot his lawyer is saying, who knows dat thief outside our shores.
ReplyDeleteDasuki as long as am concerned is innocent. So y keep an innocent man in detention against court oders let's speak against evil cos no body knows who will be next.
ReplyDeleteIf you are expecting to be next, return your share, otherwise detention is coming. Does rule of law permit stealing? The evil we are speaking about is loot.
DeleteNigerian people changed ur name from Sambo to (Burgu)
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