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Falana faults Buhari over detention of Dasuki, Kanu

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Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana has said that the continued detention of former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr.

Nnamdi Kanu inspite of the court orders that the be released on bail, is in violation of the rule of law which President Muhammadu Buhari swore to uphold on assumption of office.
Falana in a statement, entitled: “The orders for the bail of Dasuki and Kanu should be obeyed”, said the alleged refusal of the Department of State Services (DSS) to obey the order admitting them to bail, coupled with the failure to re-arraign Dasuki on fresh charges, amounted to impunity.

The lawyer noted that for the 16 years that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in power, the Federal Government exhibited total contempt for the rule of law, in which the constitution and other laws were breached with impunity while court orders were disobeyed on a regular basis.

According to him, one of the reasons Nigerians voted for President Muhammadu Buhari was his promise to fight corruption and end impunity.

“Therefore, he has a duty to ensure that all organs and officials of the government operate within the ambit of the law,” the lawyer said.

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Falana said the President should not allow overzealous security personnel to engage in impunity and thereby expose the government to unwarranted embarrassment.

“The decision of the DSS to ignore the order admitting Col. Dasuki to bail coupled with the failure to re-arraign him on fresh charges is tantamount to impunity. If the Federal Government was aggrieved by the order admitting Col. Dasuki to bail, it should have challenged it at the Court of Appeal.”

Falana said the order admitting Kanu to bail should also be complied with.

To him, if the Federal Government had other charges against both suspects, it should file them in 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,” he said.

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  1. Oise Oikelomen

    January 11, 2016 at 10:24 am

    But the President himself justified the defiance of the DSS in that his last media chat. So, as far as I am concerned, it is not the DSS that is disregarding the court; it the President himself that is rubbishing the same rule of law he swore to uphold. Allah dey watch am.

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