Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki
(retd) who have been under detention after being charged with arms deal allegations has dragged the FG before ECOWAS Court in Abuja over his
continued detention. He is also demanding payment of N500m damages for alleged rights infringement.
He is also urging the sub-regional court to order his release
forthwith. In the suit filed by his lawyer, Robert Emukpoeruo, Dasuki is
urging the court to declare among others, that his continued detention
in defiance of orders for his bail granted by 3 courts, and after
fulfilling the bail conditions, was unlawful, arbitrary and an egregious
violation of his human rights.
He also urged the ECOWAS Court to hold that it was, “a most egregious
violation of the treaty obligations” signed by Nigeria under and by
virtue of its being a signatory to legal instruments, to have unlawfully
detained him under a de-humanizing condition after he had been granted
bail and met the conditions for his release.
Similarly, he would want the court to declare that the alleged
invasion of his privacy, home and correspondence at his Abuja and Sokoto
residences and the forceful and unlawful seizure of his properties,
without any lawful order or warrant constituted a gross violation of his
fundamental rights and offended the country’s treaty obligations as a
signatory to the listed legal instruments….. in short, Buhari is in
trouble. #istandwithdasuki……
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