Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal
High Court Abuja on Monday admitted former National Security Adviser,
Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), to bail in the sum of N200 million and two
sureties in like sum......
Justice Ojukwu granted the bail while delivering judgment in a fundamental rights suit brought against the federal government.
Before now, Dasuki had been granted bail
by Justices Ademola Adeniyi (rtd), Ahmed Mohammed, Hussein Baba-Yusuf
and Peter Affen in various criminal charges both at the Federal High
Court and the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
However, delivering judgment on the
fundamental rights suit Monday, the judge who noted that the applicant’s
motion is not connected to the earlier matters in which he had been
granted bail, held that Dasuki’s continued detention since 2015 by
agents of the federal government is a gross violation of his fundamental
rights and consequently ordered that he be released on bail.
The sureties, the court held, must be
either civil servants not below grade level 16 or private citizens and
are to deposit the sum of N100 million with the registrar of the court
which would be returned at the end of the trial.
They are also to submit copies of their passport photographs to the court.
The court while frowning on the
continued detention of the former NSA by the federal government, held
that Dasuki’s detention is an aberration of the rule of law and the
constitution, adding that no nation can aspire to greatness when the
rule of law is flagrantly disobeyed.
Justice Ojukwu therefore ordered that Dasuki be released immediately the terms of his bail are fulfilled.
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