The Federal Government has revealed the reason why former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki is still in the custody of the Department of State Services.

The government made this known at the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS court in Abuja on Thurdsday through T.D. Kabiru, a legal representative of the government who argued against the release of the former NSA.

Dasuki had dragged the Federal Government to court for still keeping him in detention despite several court orders ordering the government to release him.

Kabiru told the court that going by the sheer volume of weapons discovered from Dasuki’s Abuja residence and the intelligence report gathered by the DSS suggesting that more weapons and ammunitions have still not be recovered, the government was justified to keep him in custody.

Kabiru in his argument said, “The position of the defence, which is not controverted by the applicant, is that the arms and ammunition recovered during the search is not the only arms and ammunition in the possession of the applicant.

“There is fear that he has more. There is intelligence report that some are yet to be recovered. That we fear he has more is a ground to hold him. There are on-going investigations which are revealing fresh facts concerning him.

“The right of an individual cannot supersede the security of a country when there is intelligence report to suspect the conduct of the individual. The applicant did not deny that these guns were recovered from his house.

“By Section 3 of the Firearms Act, CAP F28 LFN 2004, Part One of the Schedule thereof prescribes the arms that cannot be licensed for individual’s possession. The arms found in his house fall into this category of prohibited arms.

“Since they were illegally kept by the applicant, the deduction is that they were kept for illegal purposes. The Federal Republic of Nigeria has justified, with the evidence it has placed before the court, the detention of the applicant on ground of his own safety, and for the safety of other Nigerians by virtue of the security report received by the DSS.”