Six operatives of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) laid siege on the residence of the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), for about eight and a half hours on Thursday.
The agents were in Dasuki’s home to serve him a fresh invitation for interrogation on a “security matter.”
Dasuki, however, asked the operatives, who were led by an Assistant Director, to give the letter to any of his aides but the DSS team insisted on giving the letter personally to Dasuki who said it was a “strange” method.
It was learnt that Dasuki also sent his aides to the team that he has the right to honour an invitation or not.
Dasuki reportedly told PREMIUM TIMES that the State Security Services, SSS, were determined to re-arrest him without any court warrant or fresh charges.
He said the SSS operatives arrived his Abuja residence early Thursday and told his personal security at the gate that they needed to deliver a letter of invitation for him to report at the SSS office by 11am same day.
“I told them that if it is just a letter of invite, they can drop it with my domestic staff, but they insisted that I must come out and collect it myself.
“I told them that unless they had a warrant allowing them to arrest me, I do not have to collect the letter from them and I am also not going anywhere without my lawyer,” he said.
Dasuki said after making his position clear, the SSS operatives threatened his personal security saying they “can force themselves into the House”.
He said his current travails started on Tuesday after Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High court ordered his passport returned to him to enable him go abroad for medical treatment.
He said he received “intelligence” that an order was given to the operatives to effect his arrest at the airport.
As a result, he failed to leave on Wednesday as arranged.
He also said the SSS invited a former governor of Adamawa State, Boni Haruna, who stood as his surety in court, and intimidated him.
“They brought Boni Haruna to my house yesterday asking him to invite me to go with them just to clarify something. I told them that since this matter is in court, I am not under obligation to deal with them and advised them to go to court if they have any issue related to the case,” he said.
Dasuki accused the SSS and the governing All Progressives Congress of abuse of power.
“We were also in power and if we had abused it the way they are doing now, they would never have been here,” he said. “It is unfortunate.”
The former NSA said the way the SSS was handling the matter was exactly how things were poorly handled in the past that then threw up the Boko Haram insurgency.
“Instead of following the legal way of doing things, some people decided to take the laws into their hands and see where we are today,” he said.
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