The repeated statements of the attorney-general of the federation on the eventual release of two men as ordered by the courts have “embarrassed the Executive and exposed the Judiciary to ridicule,” senior lawyer, Femi Falana, has said.
Since the release of Sowore and Dasuki from illegal custody on December 24, 2019, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami SAN has put himself under undue pressure. In the process, he has embarrassed the Executive and exposed the Judiciary to ridicule.
It is on record that Dasuki was granted bail at different times by six judges of the federal high court and the federal capital territory high court. It is pertinent to note that the federal government did not file an appeal against any of the six court orders. In fact, the first bail application of Dasuki was not opposed by Mohammed Diri Esq. who was the then Director of Public Prosecutions from the chambers of the Attorney General of the Federation.
It is submitted that the federal government could not have filed an appeal against the judgment because the Ecowas Court is a judicial tribunal of first and last resort, without any right of appeal. However, after the judgment of Ecowas Court the Honourable Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the federal high court had cause to admit Dasuki to another bail but asked each of his two sureties to deposit N100 million with the Court.
He is not smart enough to know that silence is more profitable and profound in this case.
Buhari government is embarrassing itself everyday, government of terrorism by terrorism