I Was Arrested By Dss For Granting Bail To Dasuki, Kanu – Justice Ademola
SAN FRANCISCO, October 15, (THEWILL) – Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court Abuja has stated that his arrest by the Department of State Services, DSS, was because he granted bail to a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and freed the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
Recall that the secret police had last weekend raided the homes of some judges, disclosing that the special sting operations it carried out were based on allegations of corruptions and other acts of professional misconduct by a few of the suspected Judges. http://thewillnigeria.com/news/dss-says-recovered-millions-in-naira-dollars-from-alleged-corrupt-judges-in-multiple-raids-nationwide/
But Ademola, in a letter dated October 11, addressed to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Mahmoud Mohammed, explained that he was held for over 24 hours before he was told the reason why he was brought to the DSS office.
The letter reads, “…Upon signing the document, they told me that I am under arrest and ordered me with guns still pointed at me to move outside. As I was going, they told me they were taking me to their office, Department of State Services (DSS) office, without showing any warrant of arrest.
“I obeyed them and about six o'clock in the morning, I was whisked away from my residence to the DSS office without any warrant of arrest or reason for my arrest.
“From the time of my arrival at the DSS office, at about 6:45am on 8/10/2016, I was not told what my crime was for over 24 hours till the evening of 9/10/2016.
“A DSS officially finally informed me that the search of my arrest were based on these three allegations; petition of Hon. Jenkins Duvie dated 4th of April 2016 to the National Judicial Council (NJC); granting bail to Col. Sambo Dasuki and the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu; and using my office to secure my wife's appointment as the head of civil service state through Senator Bola Tinubu.”
Ademola also saw his arrest as revenge from the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Mr. Abubakar Malami SAN, whose arrest and detention he ordered over a professional misconduct while he was judge in Kano between 2004 and 2007.
“What is more intriguing in this whole episode, is that I see it as a vendetta/revenge from the Hon. attorney general of the federation, Abubakar Malami, whilst I was in Kano between 2004 and 2007 as a federal high court judge was involved in a professional misconduct necessitating his arrest and detention by my order.
“However, with the intervention of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Kano branch the allegation of misconduct was later withdrawn by me,” he said in the letter.
Story by Ugonnabo Ngwu.