To make the joke even more of a rib cracking one, the ECOWAS court ruled that the Federal Government should pay N15m in damages to Dasuki.

To compensate a man who allegedly diverted $2.1bn earmarked for the purchase of ammunition with another N15m, is the stuff that stand up comedy shows are made of. It’s akin to rewarding the Fox for storming through the barn door and making away with the Hen.

To placate a man with N15m for allegedly ending the lives of hundreds in the war thorn North East, is sick comedy.

Sometimes, these jokes write themselves. And ECOWAS’ ruling should have been funny if it wasn’t so tragic.

The ruling is premised on the alleged arrest of Dasuki by the State without a search warrant.

Online Newspaper Premium Times, reported the ruling this way:

“On Tuesday, a three-member panel led by Justice Friday Nwoke said Nigeria’s government was wrong in arresting Mr. Dasuki without a search warrant, adding that the pattern of arrest negates the provisions of Section 28 of the Nigerian Police Act.

“According to the said section, a superior police officer may authorise the search of a resident belonging to a suspect assumed to be in illegal possession of an item, if the officer so authorised has a search warrant….According to the judge, the search warrant presented before the ECOWAS court was not certified and therefore lacks verifiable authenticity….”

Dasuki is being held for a slew of offences including illegal possession of firearms, corruption and money laundering. To negate all of these alleged crimes and set him free on account of a flawed search warrant will amount to a travesty of justice.

In the past, the Department of State Security (DSS) had said it did have a valid search warrant with it before storming the home of the erstwhile NSA last year.

How ECOWAS will declare that search warrant “uncertified and inauthentic,” should be the subject of another round of litigation and not a call for the outright freedom of the man.

It is also subject to debate if ECOWAS has the jurisdiction to rule in a case before Nigerian courts. Are we out-sourcing our judiciary now? Have we ceased being a sovereign state? Where does the jurisdiction of the Nigerian legal system end and that of ECOWAS begin?

There’s precedence to draw from here:

In May, 2016, IPOB (Independent People of Biafra) leader Nnamdi Kanu, who is being held for secessionist threat and gun-running among other offences, ran to the ECOWAS court as well in a last ditch attempt to evade justice.

In its preliminary objection, the Federal Ministry of Justice, submitted that the sub-regional court lacked, “the requisite jurisdiction” to hear and determine the matter before it.

The government also averred that in running to the ECOWAS court before the domestic courts were given a chance at hearing the defendant’s bail application, Kanu and his counsels were subjecting the Nigerian law to ridicule and abusing the processes of the court.

The government’s objection had also read inter alia: “The corporate existence of Nigeria as a united, harmonious, indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation is certainly greater than any citizen’s liberty or right……once the security of the nation is in jeopardy…and it survives in pieces rather than in peace, an individual’s liberty or rights may not even exist.

“It is trite law that a court cannot assume jurisdiction over ancillary claims when it has no jurisdiction to entertain the main claim, since an ancillary claim can only be properly determined by that court. Thus, it is improper to approach a court which is incompetent to determine only some of the issues in a case if there is a court with jurisdiction to determine all the issues.”

http://www.istylmagazine.com/news/africa/why-fg-should-not-obey-ecowas-court-ruling-by-jude-egbas/

Teach yr government to lean to obey court orders befor coming here to blabb.

It is also subject to debate if ECOWAS has the jurisdiction to rule in a case before Nigerian courts.






Buhari courts you mean

u cant break ur own law n expect odas to uphold d law. just like pharoah harden his heart n refused to let isreal go until he was visited with calamity, buari dullard will soon be disgraced n calamity by his own hands n become object of mockery before international community very soon.
5000 years history about to repeat itself.

Ecowas court is joking. Fine, I agree that he should be charged by now, but people like this cannot be released just like that. They should be checked into a psychiatric hospital first, then you can take him to court, because that guy is not normal.

I laugh at "authors" like this because when the chickens finally come home to roost and the tables turn and they are at the side begging the law to right the wrong meted to them, they would be the ones shouting tyranny.
I don't support looters of the treasury but to make yourself a good leader, you have to also follow the precepts stated by the laws of the land.

What happened to releasing him on bail and putting him under surveillance? Seizing his passport and accelerating his court judgment? Witch hunting is not a precept of the law

Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

ECOWAS court ko, WASCOE tout ni!
no be to pronounce the judgment but na to enforce am .....

Whenever we write we should be mindful of history and try as much to play down our sentiments.
Stop this $2.1 or 2 bn story. Only ediooots buy into it. The issue is that govt is supposed to try him and openly so. U can't detain a citizen without trial. U keep adjourning the case cos u know u'll lose. If u want to lock people up lock em up through right constitutional procedures. U want to seize properties do so by legal means. Enough of these dictatorial tendencies. We should be aiming for a solid democracy now not digging our way back to the past.

Dreadful:
Biafra phobia will kill this stupid poster! Confused fool that started his crap with Dasuki and ended it with Biafra!!! Pained and bittered bastard!!!

watch n see. those who ar supporting buari's tyrany will end up becoming victims of tyrany.

drss:
watch n see. those who ar supporting buari's tyrany will end up becoming victims of tyrany.

Gbam!!!

All this gargons about upholding the law......buhari uphold d law, what stupid law, dis crooked judicial system, d system is crooked....so I support buhari on this, u can set free a man who is perceived as a threat to national security, national security supercedes any stupid human right........is it only ECOWAS court they went to, they should have also gone to WAEC court.....y should buhari obey dz ECOWAS court ruling the was presided by a three man panel led by an Igbo judge??....what is d use of ECOWAS, of wht benefit is ECOWAS to Nigeria??... In our fight against boko haram, wht has been d input of d other countries tht make up ECOWAS, it is quite clear tht without Nigeria ECOWAS is useless, so y should ECOWAS now b d one deciding what we as a sovereign state should do........from all angles it makes no sense....on the premise of this, I support buhari.....fucck ECOWAS.........