Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo
Dasuki (rtd), has dragged the federal government to an Abuja High Court
challenging his incarceration in the custody of the Department of the State
Security Service (DSS) since December last year.
In the new suit, Dasuki is praying 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).
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