25/01/2016
BUHARI COMMITTED NO OFFENCE: DASUKI & KANU's Detention is LEGAL: The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the
Director Radio Biafra and Sambo Dasuki, the
former national security adviser has raised
eye brows on the extent to which the
president is ready to comply with the rule of
law. Indeed, it is pertinent to note that Dasuki was released but
re=arrested on a separate charge while Kanu
was ordered to be remanded for 90 days in
order for security operatives to conduct
investigations. Our president was not a dictator as
he had been complying with the rule of law.
When I hear about him being dictatorial, I ask
people to give me facts and figures. And
then, when people talk about Dasuki and
Nnamdi Kanu, I wonder why we
sensationalise every development. Nnamdi
Kanu was asked to be released on a different
charge entirely from the one that is holding
him today. Don’t forget that as you and I
talk, the court has given the SSS an authority
to hold him for 90 days while they go on with
issues about treason for which he is being
charged now. So in actual fact, no court
order has been disobeyed with respect to
Kanu.
Then on the ‘Dasukigate’, Dasuki had been
released by the prison authorities because he
met his bail conditionaliities and he was out
of prison when the SSS re-arrested him for a
totally different allegation. There’s nothing in
the law concerning being re-arrested when
there is an intervening issue. I don’t know
where this issue of Mr. President not obeying
court orders are situated. For Example,
If you were in the United States, United
Kingdom or France, nobody will give either of
these two men bails. Those involved in the
7/7 bombing in the UK were never given bail.
Those responsible for the shooting in France
were not given bail. What Dasuki did by
refusing to arm the Nigerian army has led to
terrible collateral damages where a rag-tag
insurgent defeats the Nigerian Armed Forces
and taking over territories. Now, Nigeria has
the third highest number of internally
displayed persons in the North-east, it is a
massive shame and sufficient to take him to
the International criminal court for actions
against humanity. When people
sensationalise this, I wonder where we are
headed.
The issue of Nnamdu Kanu is treasonable
and I think individual integrity should be
subsumed in national integrity. If we must
take this country away from poverty, then we
must advance the cause for country. If we
advance the cause of country, the country
would, in turn, take care of us. It is
unfortunate that we have refused to wake up
from the fact that the elections of March and
April 2015 are long gone and the challenges
on our hands is to make our nation better
and work. It should not be about the APC or
PDP because hunger and poverty do not
know parties or whether you are Igbo, Hausa
or from the minorities. Hunger is hunger and
poverty is poverty and they affect people
same way.
NAIJ.COM. @ Barr. Abubakar Imam Yusuf Khalid. Keffi, Nasarawa State.
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