Human Rights Activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has chided the DSS and the Federal Government over felony charge against former National Security Adviser to President Jonathan, Col Sambo Dasuki, affirming that the allegation was laughable. He said it was becoming a dangerous trend for President Buhari to be trampling on individuals’ rights in the country.
The activist noted in a statement he personally signed that, ”quite apart from running a government of vendetta, there is no way that Gen Buhari can convince Nigerians that only a single individual, like Col Dasuki, can plan to overthrow a government.”
He said, ” I read with much disdain the press statement made against the former National Security Adviser to President Jonathan, Col Sambo Dasuki, that he was arming himself to overthrow the government of Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari. It is just simply laughable, as it is becoming clearer by the day, that this is a vindictive administration. Even before he was sworn in, Gen Buhari had launched a revenge mission against AIT, given the very offensive documentary that was run against Buhari during the campaigns. Next has been Mrs Marilyn Ogar, who was summarily demoted, by the DSS, for her role during the campaigns too.
He said Buhari was clearly nursing a grudge against the former NSA similar to the fate he suffered in Dasuki’s hands, some years back, hence he was on a revenge mission.
”But quite apart from running a government of vendetta, there is no way that Gen Buhari can convince Nigerians that only a single individual, like Col Dasuki, can plan to overthrow a government. Which is why the allegation is laughable. The fact of the presence of armoured cars in somebody’s compound, cannot in itself without more, signify an intention to plan a coup, even though Gen Buhari should know better, since he has been part of the business of planning coups and overthrowing democratic regimes, in the past. But we are now in a democratic regime, and there can be no justification whatsoever, for invading the houses of a citizen of Nigeria, in such gestspo manner, as to deny him access to his family and his lawyers,” the lawyer said.
”It is becoming a dangerous fashion for the Gen Buhari administration, to be trampling on the rights of individuals. Few days after he was sworn in, officers of the NDLEA, stormed the house of Senator Buruji Kashamu, in an attempt to enforce an illegal extradition. Presently, the former chief security officer to President Goodluck Jonathan, is under arrest and is being denied access to his family, lawyers and doctors. This is totally unacceptable.
Hailing President Buhari’s war against corruption, he said such must be done within the ambits of the law. ”Whereas we support wholeheartedly, the war against corruption, that is being prosecuted by the Buhari administration, such must be done under and within the ambits of the law. To this extent, I can find no justification for the illegal invasion of the residence of Col Sambo Dasuki.
”The DSS, in carrying out this invasion, should name the co-conspirators, provide evidence of the likely coup plot and show us proof that indeed such is seriously being planned, beyond throwing empty and shallow allegations and brandishing armoured cars, as evidence of a likely coup.
”I advise the Gen Buhari administration to settle down to the business of serious governance, name his cabinet and give Nigeria a true sense of direction, as contained in his campaign promises, rather than chasing shadows and running a government of excuses and propaganda.
”The war against corruption is becoming meaningless, in a regime that is spending a whooping N2.3bn just on a single trip to the United States of America.”
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