Dasuki may be sent back to DSS custody for ‘security reasons’

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may possibly return the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki to the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) for ‘security reasons’.

The EFCC may file new charges against Dasuki and some of the accused persons already granted bail by the High Court of Justice of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The report by The Nation quotes a source in EFCC, to have said: “We will obey court order to release Dasuki on bail but we may only return him to DSS custody because he was on remand warrant of a Chief Magistrate’s Court, which was obtained by the DSS,  when we asked the agency to make him available to us for prosecution.

“I think the remand warrant may have to do with security issues beyond our purview.

“In line with inter-agency cooperation, we  took custody of Dasuki from the DSS, we will return him there. It is left to Dasuki to approach another court to vacate the remand warrant got by the DSS.

“Also, we are likely to arraign Dasuki and some of the accused persons  in another  court for different charges. The case against these accused persons has many dimensions.”

Ahmed Raji (SAN), the lawyer of Dasuki was also reported to have reacted to the planned transfer of Dasuki to the custody of the DSS.

Raji said the remand warrant of the Magistrate Court had become irrelevant the moment Dasuki was arraigned in court.

“It will be improper and contemptuous of the court to re-arrest Dasuki. Justice Peter Affen was explicit in issuing an order that neither Dasuki nor any of the accused persons should be re-arrested. Even  if the order is not there, you don’t re-arrest someone already on trial.

“In two courts in the FCT, they have been granted bail and the EFCC has been served with the order. The essence of the bail is to guarantee their attendance at the trial

“To re-arrest or detain Dasuki or any of the accused persons will look like you are ridiculing the court.”

“There is no remand warrant for Dasuki. You use remand warrant from a Magistrate’s Court when a matter is under investigation. The moment you arraign accused persons in court, the warrant becomes otiose and irrelevant.

“It is the EFCC that is investigating the accused persons; the same agency arraigned them in court and now that they have been granted bail, it should release them.

“Are they saying that they will return Dasuki to the DSS so that he will not be able to go for trial? We should not ridicule the court in any manner.”

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