Dasuki to Remain in Detention – Appeal Court

The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal on Wednesday evening held that the continued detention of the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki and his re-arrest after he was released from prison custody on December 29, 2015, was not a violation of any existing order. This was contained in a judgement delivered by a panel of five Justices led by Justice Abdul Aboki. It would be recalled that Dasuki had filed an appeal against the earlier decisions of Justices Husein Baba Yusuf of the High Court of the Federal Capital territory (FCT), Abuja and Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who had declared that the decision of the Department of State Services (DSS) to re-arrest Dasuki after he was released by the authority of the Kuje prison was not a violation of any existing order.