FG says Dasuki is a grave threat to National Security, accuse him of stockpiling weapons

The Federal Government has classified the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) as a great threat to national security.  

The government made this position known before the ECOWAS court in Abuja in a human rights suit by the ex NSA challenging his continued detention the custody of the Department of State Services despite being granted bail by several courts.

Federal Government’s lawyer, T.D. Kabiru argued that the amount of illegal weapons recovered from Dasuki’s Abuja home and the intelligence report at the disposal of the nation’s security agencies has it that more arms and ammunitions have not being recovered, this he said justified Dasuki’s continued detention.

“The position of the defence, which is not controverted by the applicant, is that the arms and ammunition recovered during the search is not the only arms and ammunition in the possession of the applicant.

“There is fear that he has more. There is intelligence report that some are yet to be recovered. That we fear he has more is a ground to hold him. There are on-going investigations which are revealing fresh facts concerning him.

“The right of an individual cannot supersede the security of a country when there is intelligence report to suspect the conduct of the individual. The applicant did not deny that these guns were recovered from his house.

“By Section 3 of the Firearms Act, CAP F28 LFN 2004, Part One of the Schedule thereof prescribes the arms that cannot be licensed for individual’s possession. The arms found in his house fall into this category of prohibited arms.

“Since they were illegally kept by the applicant, the deduction is that they were kept for illegal purposes. The Federal Republic of Nigeria has justified, with the evidence it has placed before the court, the detention of the applicant on ground of his own safety, and for the safety of other Nigerians by virtue of the security report received by the DSS,” Kabiru said. 

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