The horrifying story of how a Nigerian citizen, Mr. Abdullahi Ahmadu, has been in the custody of the Department of State Services since 2013 without access to the court or family members has been exposed.
Already, the court has entertained an order brought by Ibrahim Hassan and Afolabi Omotoso, the counsel to the applicant, to compel the DSS that “his counsel and relatives be allowed access to him”. To this end, the court was prayed to order DSS to not only release Ahmadu from detention but to pay N60 million compensation in addition to a public apology for the “unjustifiable, unlawful and continuous detention of the applicant for about six years now and still counting”.
For Ahmadu, life was so dark and hopeless until he met one of the witnesses, Mr. Afiz Jamiu, in the DSS custody between April 16 and May 10, 2019. According to him, Ahmadu is a plumber, borehole driller, vendor and a contractor behind Lafia East Primary School, Nasarawa State, who also bought and sold land and household property.
Most of Nigeria's security agencies, especially Army, Police and DSS are shamelessly lawless.
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