Siege: Dasuki sues FG

Embattled former National Security Adviser (NSA) Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has sued the Federal Government over the continued siege on his Asokoro residence and his forced house arrest.

Dasuki approached a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, seeking the enforcement of his fundamental human rights to dignity and security of his life.

The former NSA also prayed the court to dispose with his appearance in court because of the alleged constant threats to his life from security agencies, while also praying the court to make an order of mandamus, compelling the Federal Government and its agents, especially the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to vacate his house located at 13, John Kadija Street, Asokoro with immediate effect.

Dasuki, in the suit filed by his counsel, Ahmed Adeniyi Raji, SAN, prayed the court to stop the siege laid on his house and to remove all impediments, human and non-human barricade and bulwarks said to have hindered the permission granted him since November 3 to travel abroad for treatment of his ailing health.

Raji, on behalf of his client, filed the motion on notice pursuant to section 36(5) 37 and 41 of the 1999 constitution and sections 1(1) and (2) and 266 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015, seeking for an order of the court extending the order of November 3 granting him leave to seek medical help abroad.

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Dasuki claimed that the Federal Government had frustrated the order of the court through the operatives of the SSS and other security agencies by barricading his apartment since the permission was granted.

He added that shortly after he was stopped from travelling, the operatives of the DSS, acting on behalf of the Federal Government, stormed and barricaded his house at Asokoro in brazen defiance of the court order and prevented him from traveling out.

Dasuki also alleged that the siege on his house ought to be immediately removed and that as a result of the aggression of the Federal Government, his life has been under constant threat.

The court has however not fixed any date for hearing of the suit.

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