The Director General of the Department of State Service
(DSS) Mr. Lawal Musa Daura has declined the request of former National Security
Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki to attend the burial of his father, former Sultan of
Sokoto later today in Sokoto, Sokoto State.
A close source
reveals that Dasuki sought the permission of the DG of DSS to attend the
burial of his father who died on Monday
night in an Abuja hospital and who is scheduled to be buried at a funeral
service to take place after Zuhr prayer this afternoon, Tuesday at the Sultan
Bello Mosque in Sokoto.
The source said the DG of DSS told Dasuki that “You cannot
attend the funeral of your father in Sokoto today”. The source said Dasuki
repeatedly pleaded with the Director General of the DSS to allow him pay his
last respect to his father even if it means he will be in handcuffs at the
funeral but Daura declined saying there is no such privilege for detained
suspects.
Sambo Dasuki has been detained at the headquarters of the
the DSS in Abuja since December 30th, 2015. The DSS had laid siege to Dasuki’s
Asokoro house for days, claiming he was being investigated for another matter,
even though he was supposedly billed to travel for medical checkup abroad after
a court had granted him leave to travel for medical checkup. Dasuki was later
arraigned before Justice Yusuf Baba of another Abuja High court on breach of
trust, and though was granted bail, was again re-arrested by the security
operatives.
Dasuki has insisted that “as for my tenure as the nation’s
NSA, I acted in the interest of the nation and with utmost fear of God. I did
not use the office for any self-serving agenda. I occupied the Office of the
National Security Adviser at a difficult moment in Nigerian history when
terrorism was at its peak and I am leaving posterity to judge me accordingly
Jonathan, not me, approved arms procurement deals”.
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