Dasuki Files New Suit, Demands N15bn Compensation & Public Apology From FG, Says He's Been In Solitary Confinement

Detained former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo

 Dasuki (rtd), has dragged the federal government to an Abuja High Court

 challenging his continued incarceration since December last year. In the new

 suit, Dasuki asked the court to order his immediate release from

 detention either conditionally or un-conditionally.

 Dasuki,

 who claimed that his fundamental right to freedom of liberty and dignity

 to life had been grossly violated by the federal government with his

 detention, prayed for an order of the court to compel the federal

 government to pay him N15 billion as general damages and compensation

 for his alleged illegal detention in violation of his rights as

 enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.

 He also prayed the court to

 compel defendants in the suit to jointly and severally tender a public

 apology to him to be published in two national dailies for the violation

 of his rights.

 Defendants in the court action are the Department of

 State Security Service (DSSS), National Security Adviser (NSA),

 Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the Economic and Financial

 Crimes Commission (EFCC).

 Dasuki asked the court to declare that he

 was entitled to his rights to dignity of human person, personal liberty,

 fair hearing, freedom of movement, private and family life and to

 acquire and own properties as enshrined in the 1999 constitution.

 He also wants the court to declare that his arrest and continuous

 detention since December 29, 2015 in the custody of the DSSS and NSA by

 officers of the federal government without allowing him access to his

 medical personnel, members of his family and without charging him to

 court within the time prescribed by law is wrongful, unlawful,

 un-constitutional and a violation of his right granted by the country’s

 constitution.

 Dasuki said upon his release on bail at Kuje prison on

 December 29, 2015, he was re-arrested by the

 operatives of the DSS and had since been kept in solitary conferment,

 thereby impairing his ability to provide for his family.

 The affidavit indicated that the concern and apprehension of his family

 became compounded when president Muhammadu Buhari in his maiden

 Presidential media chat of December 30, 2015 said that Dasuki will not

 be released because of the weight of charges against him and that he may

 likely jump bail.

 Dasuki claimed that unless the court comes

 to his rescue by protecting him and order his immediate release, his

 right to life, human dignity, personal liberty, privacy, family life,

 freedom of movement and right to own properties already impaired and

 violated by the defendants will continue to be impaired and put in

 jeopardy.

 The case has been assigned to Justice Peter Kekemekun. The court is however on vacation.