A Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Judiciary Reforms, Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu, has given reasons a
former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, may not be released
despite the bail granted him.
According to her, Nigeria must
spare nothing in the fight against corruption.
She said that those calling for
the release of Dasuki should consider the fact that many innocent Nigerians
died just because the former NSA shared the money meant to fight insurgency to
politicians.
Ibekaku-Nwagwu spoke with the Sun
newspaper, saying, “I wish you could tell me a couple of judgments that the
government disobeyed apart from the Dansuki’s case, which is really based on
national security interest.
“I want to know about other
cases. If you have to balance national security, the interest of persons and
individuals, there has never been any country where you allow an individual’s
interest to override the national security. And until we can come to grasp with
the facts that an individual sat back and allowed several human beings to be killed
and slaughtered in the North-east without using the money meant for buying arms
for the military.
“Until we come to grasp with the
fact that the fundamental problems we have today, part of the security problems
we have today, is traceable to the corruption that started way back before this
government came into office.
“And if we are trying to balance
that national security interest with that of individual interest, I am sure the
courts will review their decision.
“The security problems we have
today in Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa and other states are not something
that are just happening, it goes beyond that. Somebody is funding it; somebody
is equipping, somebody is making sure that those people can go out and create
so much mayhem and kill several human beings.
“We need to come to terms that we
have a national security problem in this country. And how we deal with it
sometimes is to allow a presidential directive to enable us to deal with these
problems. What I am saying is that when we talk about the case as it is, we
should always make sure that we do an analysis of the historical antecedents
that led us to where we are today.
“The matter is still in court and
the government of Nigeria reserves the right to go to appeal on that decision.
So, the government of Nigeria is reviewing the judicial decision; the
government of Nigeria will determine whether to go on appeal and request for
‘stay of execution’ on this matter. It is not a political matter.
“It is a security matter. I think
between the judiciary and the executive, there is an on-going discussion as to
whether this particular decision requires a further judicial review by way of
an appeal. Let us allow the appeal process to be exhausted.”
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