Lagos radical lawyer and rights activist, Festus Keyamo,
yesterday asked Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), to
carryout what he termed investigation
into grave allegations made against former militant leader, Mujahid
Dokubo-Asari.
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| FESTUS KEYAMO |
Keyamo in a statement jointly signed by Bala Dakum, and Ibrahim Abdullahi, both from the
human rights lawyer stated that, "We are solicitors to Alhaji Mujahid
Dokubo-Asari (hereinafter referred to as ‘our client’) and on whose
instructions we petition you. Our client briefed us as follows:
"That after the
ugly incidents of Wednesday, 23rd July, 2014 in Kaduna State that killed about
eighty five (85) people and which was allegedly targeted at former Head of
State, General Muhammadu Buhari and an Islamic Cleric, Sheik Dahiru Bauchi, an
online media, RESCUE NEWS, published a news item that our client procured
suicide bombers to kill General Muhammdu Buhari and that he is privy to a plot
to assassinate General Muhammdu Buhari.
"The publisher further alleged that our client paid the
sum of N5,000,000.00 (Five Million Naira) to the suicide bombers that carried
out the said dastardly act and that one of the suspected suicide bombers
arrested in connection with the said incident of 23rd July, 2014 has confessed
to our client’s complicity in the said act.
"Our client
finds these mendacious allegations made against him too weighty and grave to
ignore or disregard. The said allegations have endangered the life of our
client, the lives of his family, close associates and kinsmen.
"While our client has the right to express his views on
national issues like any other citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and
has done so on many occasions, he has never and will never be involved in a
plot to kill a respected former leader like Buhari or anyone for that matter.
"We kindly implore you to use your good offices to
thoroughly investigate the allegations leveled against our client by the said
Rescue News to curtail the threat, public disenchantment and animosity already
created against our client, his family, close associates and kinsmen as a
result of these baseless allegations."
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