The Nigerian navy has declined to
comment on the continued detention of 15 Nigerian citizens for seven months
without trial.
The detainees including Dada
Labinjo, a navy captain, and Sherifat Ibe Lambert (also known as Mrs Bola
Labinjo), a lt. commander, have been in detention since September 2018 for an
undisclosed offence.
The navy has neither released
them nor charged them to court since they were arrested.
While it has refused to obey the
order of a magistrate’s court that Lambert should be released, the security
agency is also said to have denied the detainees access to their lawyers and
family members.
When Femi Falana, human rights
lawyer, raised an alarm over the detentions on Sunday, our correspondent contacted
Suleman Dahun, Nigerian navy spokesman, for comments but he promised to get
back to the reporter.
Two days after, on Tuesday,
our correspondent reached out to Dahun again, to speak on the matter but he also
declined to comment, promising to get back to the reporter.
“I will get back to you,” he
simply said.
He is yet to do so as at the time
when this report was filed, while text messages sent to him remain unreplied.
Falana had called on Abubakar
Malami, attorney-general of the federation, to charge the naval personnel
responsible for the violations of the fundamental rights of the detainees with
contempt of court and acts of torture under the Criminal Code Act and the Anti
Torture Act.
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