Muslim cleric ‘still in DSS detention’ despite court order

A human rights lawyer, Ahmed Adetola-Kazeem, declared that he has commenced contempt proceedings against the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, over the continued detention of an Islamic cleric, Abdul-Ganiy Ibrahim, in spite of a court order.

Ibrahim and his then pregnant wife, Muinat, had, on July 5, 2014, been reportedly carried away from their Ijoko, Ogun State home by unidentified gunmen, but they were later traced to the DSS station in Abeokuta, from where Muinat was released while Ibrahim continued to be detained.

Adetola-Kazeem had petitioned a Federal High Court in Abeokuta to challenge the arrest and continued detention of Ibrahim by the DSS without disclosing his alleged offence or charging him to court.

He also said that all efforts to get the DSS and its DG to cooperate failed.

“None of them has given me any positive response. They are not even sure where he is. Those in Abeokuta said he is in Abuja; those in Abuja said he is in Lagos. Anytime you ask them, they would say give us his name and also send his picture, so that we can ascertain if he’s with us because there a lot of them there,” the lawyer said.

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