The case of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col.
Sambo Dasuki, challenging his unlawfully detention by the Federal
Government before the Community Court of Justice of the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has been adjourned
indefinitely.
Dasuki, for mer National Security Adviser (NSA) to former President
Goodluck Jonathan, has been in custody of the Department of the State
Security Service (DSS) since December 2015.
The court, presided over by Justice Friday Nwoke on May 16
reserved judgment till June 29 after taking final argument from Mr.
Robert Emukperuo, lawyer to Dasuki and federal government’s lawyer, Mr.
Tijani Gazali.
But on Wednesday June 29, contrary to expectations of journalists,
lawyers and other observers who were present at the regional court in
Abuja, the much awaited judgment was said not to be ready and that a new
date for the judgment would be communicated to lawyers when ready.
It learnt that journalists, lawyers and observers were
turned back at the court entrance by security men who disclosed to them
that the court management had instructed them to tell everybody that
judgment was not ready.
In the court action instituted by his counsel, Mr. Robert Emukpoeruo,
Dasuki is asking the court to void his detention, seizure of his
properties and to bar government from further keeping him in custody
without a lawful court order.
he also prayed the court to award in his favor a sum of
N500 million as compensatory damages for the alleged unlawful invasion
of his house, detention, seizure of properties and infringement on his
rights.
According to him, government had put him on trial in three different
high courts on corruption charges where he was granted bail but was
rearrested after bail.
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