A Senior Advocate of Nigeria
(SAN), Ahmed Raji has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently
release the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki
to attend to his health and in the interest of justice.
Raji, a senior counsel to Dasuki,
spoke in reaction to a recent statement by Amnesty International (AI), accusing
the Buhari administration of secret and illegal detention of many Nigerians.
Dasuki is standing trial over
allegations of unlawful possession of firearms, money laundering criminal
breach of trust amongst others brought against him by the Federal Government in
2015.
He pleaded not guilty to all the
charges and applied for bail which was granted by all the courts.
Dasuki, however, is still being
detained despite meeting all conditions attached to the bail.
But, Raji said that he would not
joined issues with either the president or the government but would rather
plead that on compassionate ground, Dasuki should be allowed to go on bail or
at worse be placed under house arrest.
“I hold president Buhari in high
esteem, I respect him in his private and official capacity, I have tremendous
respect for him and I mean it. And my plea to him is to allow Dasuki to go on
bail or at worst be placed under house arrest, be confined to his house”, he
told Thisday.
“Whatever he might have done
wrong in the past outside what we have been told I plead in the name of God
that he should be forgiven. I am not confirming that he has done anything wrong
but I plead that he be forgiven if at all he had done anything wrong in the
past”, he said.
He appealed to the government to
obey the court orders, adding that it is through the instrumentality of the
same court that the fight against corruption would be prosecuted.
“All over the world there is what
is known as judicial review or administrative action but there is nothing like
executive review of the judicial decision. The implication of disobedience of
the four court orders is that there appear to be a concept of executive review
of judicial actions on Dasuki which is abnormal.
“I will only humbly plead with
the Federal Government to, in the Interest of Justice and sanctity of law and
orderliness, to allow Dasuki to go on bail even if under house arrest.”
The SAN admitted that the trial
of Dasuki goes beyond ordinary crime because it has doses of politics which at
the end of the day may have to be resolved in a manner that will accommodate
the political aspect.
“It is in the light of the
political doses involved that I am pleading that even if it is under house
arrest, Dasuki should be released in the interest of justice.”
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