Lagos lawyer Femi Falana has called on the federal government to obey
court orders & immediately release embattled former National
Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and Biafran leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Falana
made the call in a statement which he released over the weekend. In the
statement, Falana said President Buhari will be disregarding the rule of
law if Dasuki and Kanu are still being detained despite being granted
bail by a Federal court.
“The decision of the SSS to ignore the order admitting Col. Dasuki to
bail coupled with the failure to re-arraign him on fresh charges is
tantamount to impunity in every material respect.
If the federal government were aggrieved by the
order admitting Col. Dasuki to bail it should have challenged it in the
Court of Appeal. Much as the Nigerian people are fully behind the Buhari
Administration in the patriotic move to recover the looted wealth of
the nation, the federal government should be advised to ensure that the
procedure for the loot recovery meets the tenets of the rule of law. The
order admitting the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr.
Nnamdi Kanu, to bail should also be complied with.
If the federal government has other charges against both suspects
(Messrs. Kanu and Dasuki) it should file them in the court. There is no
provision for keeping criminal suspects at the pleasure of security
officials. Meanwhile, all valid and subsisting orders made by courts in
favour of criminal suspects should be obeyed without further delay,” the
statement read in part
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