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We’ll comply with ECOWAS Court ruling on Dasuki – FG
ECOWAS COURT
The Federal Government will comply with the ECOWAS Court order to release former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) from detention, Nigeria’s chief law officer told Daily Trust yesterday.
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and minister for justice, Abubakar Malami SAN disclosed this to our reporter on the sideline of the meeting of Attorneys General at the Transcorp Hotel, Abuja.




“We will study the ruling, we are waiting for the ruling from the ECOWAS Court, and one thing that I am certain of is that there is room for judicial review.
“... But one thing I can assure you is that we will comply with the order and the necessary provisions of the law as applicable, so we study it in line with the provisions of the prevailing law in the country,” he said.
The ECOWAS Court last Tuesday in Abuja ordered for Dasuki’s release and also awarded a fine of N15m against the government for illegal detention of the former NSA.
Justice Chijioke Nwoke who delivered the judgement said that even if the applicant had committed a crime, the law still has it that due process of the law must be observed in his trial adding that it is an established fact that the applicant was put on trial in three different Nigerian High Courts and was granted bails by the courts.
The court condemned the action of the Nigerian government in subjecting the ex-NSA to indefinite detention without trial.
The ECOWAS Court doesn’t have the instruments to enforce its judgments like other municipal courts in Nigeria, a constitutional lawyer and professor of law, Auwalu Yadudu, has said.
Speaking to Daily Trust last night, he said the ECOWAS court has no superior powers over other Nigerian courts, because “Nigeria has domesticated the ECOWAS Treaty and the ECOWAS Court has become part of our legislation.”
“The ECOWAS court doesn’t have stronger powers than metropolitan courts,” the professor said.
“Whatever the court decides, it will be treated as part of the Nigerian constitution. It doesn’t enjoy any other powers than an ordinary court in the country,” Yadudu said.
He said unlike municipal courts, like the Federal High Court Lagos for instance, the ECOWAS Court doesn’t have powers to enforce its judgments. It doesn’t have the police force or any other law enforcement agencies to enforce its rulings,” the constitutional lawyer said.
He said the refusal of any government agency to implement a court order is another determinant of the weakness of the rule of law in the country.
He said the former NSA Sambo Dasuki’s case represents the political escalation of the ongoing saga, whereby Nigerians go to “regional courts such as the ECOWAS Court for the enforcement of their fundamental human rights because they couldn’t get it at the domestic courts such as the Federal High Court, Lagos.”
The professor of law said the federal government can’t release Dasuki based on other court orders. He said the former security chief is being tried in other courts on different charges.
On his part Alhaji Ahmed Raji (SAN) asked the government to comply with the order.
Raji said that Nigeria as a respected member of ECOWAS and the International Community is expected to honour its obligations to the protocols establishing the court by complying with its order.
The senior lawyer said that the spirit invoked in the acceptance of the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the disputed oil rich Bakassi Land must be applied in the decision of the ECOWAS Court.
Raji explained that ECOWAS Court was not a domestic court, its sitting in Nigeria notwithstanding.
“I am appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to facilitate immediate compliance with the ECOWAS Court decision. I am also appealing to the Presidential aides especially the Chief Law Officer of the Federation Mallam Abubakar Malami SAN and the heads of the intelligence units to advise the President properly”.
“The order of the court cannot be ridiculed and Nigeria, as a democratic nation, cannot afford to ridicule the court order in the interest of the corporate image of the country”.





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If I have learnt anything from this government, It is that I should never believe what this government says. This news can only be taken with a pinch when we see Dasuki set free and free for a while because they will attempt to pick him up again.

Buhari is a vindictive dictator and it will require some serious arm-twisting by some influential powers to have him release Dasuki. I am strongly convinced Buhari will not end well both as an individual and a president.

It's like the new Sherifat in town has little or no choice after all. We thought he was the ezemmuo of Africa

ahaika23:
It's like the new Sherifat in town has little or no choice after all. We thought he was the ezemmuo of Africa

His brains re now being reset to default setting

Seeing is believing, I don't trust this government.

rusher14:
He'll be released and rearrested.

Russian man, u see ur party, rearrest

Flets:
If I have learnt anything from this government, It is that I should never believe what this government says. This news can only be taken with a pinch when we see Dasuki set free and free for a while because they will attempt to pick him up again.

Buhari is a vindictive dictator and it will require some serious arm-twisting by some influential powers to have him release Dasuki. I am strongly convinced Buhari will not end well both as an individual and a president.

lol.. This is law. U already heard the man.

We will accept the ruling and check it against our own prevailing rule of law...

Dasuki ain't going nowhere... So is ur director, kanu

ahaika23:
It's like the new Sherifat in town has little or no choice after all. We thought he was the ezemmuo of Africa

idensko:

His brains re now being reset to default setting

kids, allow us to tell u how it works. He wld be released but as soon as he set foot outside the court, he wld be rearresred with a separate crime..
Does that ring a bell?

KINGwax007:
kids, allow us to tell u how it works. He wld be released but as soon as he set foot outside the court, he wld be rearresred with a separate crime..
Does that ring a bell?

yes,it does,more like a dumbbell used for exercise,dead weight

Afonja dullapo PRO..

Op,yessoo,the zoo gat no options..they must obey court order..ecowas is not zoogeria..
Zoogeria is a horrible example in africa..i have long rejected the zoo and will l8a you-tube the burning of my zoo passport..

rusher14:
He'll be released and rearrested.

based on what chargers? As it stands the FG in its foolishness have already initially charged Dasuki with everything they could think of to get a conviction to no avail. I wonder where the are gonna source the new charges from, maybe from Mars.

KINGwax007:
kids, allow us to tell u how it works. He wld be released but as soon as he set foot outside the court, he wld be rearresred with a separate crime..
Does that ring a bell?

I choose to disregard you

rusher14:


Nothing wrong with that in law.

If you commit distinct and separate crimes the crimes would find you out.

The issue before the ECOWAS court is how he was charged /arrested not whether he is guilty of a crime.

He is not above the law and Nigeria might simply want to display some affiliation with the said court by releasing him on their suggestion.

To make all parties "happy" he would be released and rearrested. Perhaps for separate crimes.

please what crime do you guys have in mind to charge him with, cattle rustling?

Buhari will waste 4 years chasing shadows. At the end of 4 years he would ask for another term to perfect the zigzag he created. Go back in time to '84 you wouldn't be surprised one bit by Buhari's present actions. Vengeful people do no make good leaders, not now, never ever.

KINGwax007:
lol.. This is law. U already heard the man.

We will accept the ruling and check it against our own prevailing rule of law...

Dasuki ain't going nowhere... So is ur director, kanu

hahaha, I know this scares the shiit outta you and your boss but keep calm, just as God freed the Israelites it's gonna happen again.

Govt of lies n probaganda

KINGwax007:
lol.. This is law. U already heard the man.

We will accept the ruling and check it against our own prevailing rule of law...

Dasuki ain't going nowhere... So is ur director, kanu

See Zombie from waste talking... "Our own Prevailing rule of law....". What do you know to be rule of law? When Nnamd Kanu with Dasuki will be set free, ur rat size God which is PMB will hang himself.

Justiceleague1:


yes,it does,more like a dumbbell used for exercise,dead weight

Afonja dullapo PRO..

Op,yessoo,the zoo gat no option..the must obey court order..ecowas is not zoogeria..
Zoogeria is a horrible example in africa..i have long rejected the zoo and will l8a you tube the burning of my passport..

Mboi2:

See Zombie from waste talking... "Our own Prevailing rule of law....". What do you know to be rule of law? When Nnamd Kanu with Dasuki will be set free, ur rat size God which is PMB will hang himself.

ahaika23:
hahaha, I know this scares the shiit outta you and your boss but keep calm, just as God freed the Israelites it's gonna happen again.

watching in 3D

rusher14:


You guys just talk without analysis.

Is it the executive that convicts?

How many cases have you seen of people being convicted over night? Even James Ibori's case in UK took months for completion.

Importantly, ECOWAS cannot enforce its verdict though the government would display some magnanimity by respecting it.

Dasuki would continue to go for trial and save a miracle of Ben Hur magnitude, he would be convicted.

truth be told, pmb is in a fix and sadly there's nothing he can do about it. The more he tries to be a democrat, the more his tyranistic nature appears.

Now where are the irredeemable zombies of this platform who where frothing from their mouth that ECOWAS cant be supreme over NIGERIAN COURT

I begin to shuder at times the kind of education these bastards have

EnEnPeecee:
Now where are the irredeemable zombies of this platform who where frothing from their mouth that ECOWAS cant be supreme over NIGERIAN COURT

I begin to shuder at times the kind of education these bastards have

they are zombies, they can't help themselves!

Naija very own MAN OF STEAL....sorry STEEL