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Senior Advocate Begs Buhari for Dasuki’s Release
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ahmed Raji has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to release the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki on humanitarian ground and in the interest of justice.
Raji, a senior counsel to Dasuki in the trials, made the plea in an exclusive interview with THISDAY correspondent while reacting to a recent statement by Amnesty International (AI), accusing the Buhari administration of secret and illegal detention of many Nigerians.
Dasuki is standing trial over allegations of unlawful possession of fire-arms, money laundering criminal breach of trust amongst others brought against him by the Federal Government in 2015.
He pleaded not guilty to all the charges and applied for bail which was granted by all the courts but has not allowed enjoying the bail even after meeting all conditions attached to the bail.
THISDAY, September 17, 2017
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JOHNSON PETER
September 17, 2017 at 12:59 pm
Personal beef buhari has with dasuki has entered into his own case and not just corruption again
Balarabe musa
September 18, 2017 at 4:19 am
That’s a lie, baba buhari has forgotten the past and he is not taking his pound of flesh from him in anyway
yanju omotodun
September 17, 2017 at 1:30 pm
Lawlessness on the part of buhari, Ecowas court mandated it to release dasuki but yet he snubbed the order and there is an alleged indicted talk that buhari released kabiru sokoto who bombed mandala church in Suleja, but to release dasuki, wahala
Balarabe musa
September 18, 2017 at 4:18 am
You don’t what you are saying, releasing dasuki just like that is not proper, he is a threat and should be caged till further notice
Abeni Adebisi
September 17, 2017 at 4:57 pm
What will be of the fight against corruption if Dasuki gets released? Nothing! Dasuki is a theif and should not be pitied
Animashaun Ayodeji
September 17, 2017 at 5:00 pm
The case is taking longer than expected, it will later be trashed, there can never be real justice in this country, we all have to stop deceiving ourselves
Anita Kingsley
September 17, 2017 at 5:15 pm
There’s no justifiable reason to release Dasuki, he made Boko Haram insurgency worse in Nigeria, he has to pay for it. Thousands of people lost their lives, including soldiers because he didn’t buy the arms he collected the money.