Chris Nwaokobia, head of Change Ambassadors of Nigeria, a strategic team which played a prominent role in the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has said that President Buhari has committed no offence with the detention of high profile detainees.
The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the Director Radio Biafra and Sambo Dasuki, the former national security adviser has raised eyebrows on the extent to which the president is ready to comply with the rule of law.
In an interview with naij.com, Nwaokobia explained 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.
He said the 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 conditionalities 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.
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 displaced 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
Source: Naij.com
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