Falana Threatens To Sue FG, AGF, DSS Boss Over Continuous Detention Of El-zakzaky
Human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has written to President Muhammadu Buhari, over the continuous detention of the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria also known as the Shi'ites, Ibraheem Elzakzaky and his wife, Hajia Ibraheem-Elzakzaky, threatening legal action if justice failed to prevail.
This was made known in a letter sent by the human right activist to the President dated Wednesday, April 26, 2017.
Falana threatened that should the President fail to ensure the release of the couple, he would institute a contempt suit against the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), and the Director-General of the Department of State Service, Mr. Lawal Daura, for disobeying the court judgment which ordered that the couple's should be released.
He noted that the continuous detention of the couple was in violation of the judgment of Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja delivered on December 2, 2016.
Falana further added that the Federal High Court had in the judgment declared the detention of his clients illegal and unconstitutional and ordered their release from the custody of the DSS within 45 days from the date of the judgment.
According to him, if those indicted by the Kaduna State Judicial Commission of Enquiry were prosecuted, he would have no other choice than to approach the International Criminal Court to seek the trial of soldiers fingered in the murder of 347 members of the Shia Community at Zaria during a bloody clash with soldiers in the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai in December 2015.
He however anchored his letter on the promise made by President Buhari to end impunity, a vice which he said his client was currently suffering from.
Falana said while the DSS continued to illegally hold El-Zakzaky and his wife in custody, the Army authorities had refused to fish out and prosecute the soldiers who were allegedly responsible for the murder of 347 Shi'ites, and the police were “violently” disrupting the peaceful rallies of the group.
This was made known in a letter sent by the human right activist to the President dated Wednesday, April 26, 2017.
Falana threatened that should the President fail to ensure the release of the couple, he would institute a contempt suit against the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), and the Director-General of the Department of State Service, Mr. Lawal Daura, for disobeying the court judgment which ordered that the couple's should be released.
He noted that the continuous detention of the couple was in violation of the judgment of Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja delivered on December 2, 2016.
Falana further added that the Federal High Court had in the judgment declared the detention of his clients illegal and unconstitutional and ordered their release from the custody of the DSS within 45 days from the date of the judgment.
According to him, if those indicted by the Kaduna State Judicial Commission of Enquiry were prosecuted, he would have no other choice than to approach the International Criminal Court to seek the trial of soldiers fingered in the murder of 347 members of the Shia Community at Zaria during a bloody clash with soldiers in the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai in December 2015.
He however anchored his letter on the promise made by President Buhari to end impunity, a vice which he said his client was currently suffering from.
Falana said while the DSS continued to illegally hold El-Zakzaky and his wife in custody, the Army authorities had refused to fish out and prosecute the soldiers who were allegedly responsible for the murder of 347 Shi'ites, and the police were “violently” disrupting the peaceful rallies of the group.
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