Grant Dasuki Access to Medical Treatment - Group Tells FG

An NGO has appealed to the Federal Government to grant the embattled Sambo Dasuki's request to get medical attention as he claims to have cancer.

Sambo Dasuki

  

A non governmental organisation (NGO) Sokoto Elders Vanguard, has appealed to the Federal Government to allow former National Security Adviser (NSA) , Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd), access to medical treatment as granted by the court of law.
 

The group, in a press statement signed by Alhaji Musa Umaru, advised President Muhammadu Buhari-led government that denying the main suspect in the $2.1billion arms deal scam access to medical attention could amount to condemning him even before his eventual trial.

 

The group also berated the two agencies handling Dasuki’s trial, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and DSS, as acting like they are playing out a script to satisfy some “strangers.”

 

The group said, “Dasuki, like many other people in detention, have become a case study of how not to treat those who require medical attention while in detention. Yes, they have a case to answer, but only living souls are taken to court for trial.

“It is a known fact that people in detention sometimes fake being ill to get out of detention, but not in a case where the detainee is not even given the chance to be examined by any doctor.

“Dasuki has been known to suffer some medical conditions, he therefore, needs access to medical attention. At least, until the courts affirm that he is a criminal, he should be allowed right to his doctors. The situation now is that it is only his wife that is allowed to see him. Even his lawyers are not allowed to see their client except in court.

“In all of these, many lawyers are watching without saying anything, but they know that the judicial system is being made to stand on its head. Something should be done to address cases like this (not for Dasuki alone)