NASS Siege: Ajulo Offers $10, 000 For Credible Information, Wants Daura Tried

Abuja based lawyer and human rights activist, Dr. Kayode Ajulo, has charged the Federal Government to ensure that all those found culpable on the recent siege at the National Assembly, are investigated and tried for treason.

Ajulo who is a former National Secretary of the Labour Party, aside demanding an independent probe into the saga, equally offered $10, 000 reward for credible information on who the principle actors were.

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In a statement he released in Abuja on Thursday, the renowned lawyer maintained that it was not enough for FG to sack the former Director General of the Department of State Service, DSS.

He said there was need for sober reflection and vigilance to avert a travesty of such nature in future.

According to Ajulo, “First, while it is worth the while to commend Acting President Yemi Osinabjo, SAN, for the prompt response in arresting the apparent drift to anarchy, it is germane to stress that it is not enough to celebrate the sack of Lawal Daura as Director General of the SSS.

“Rather, the unfortunate incident not only calls for sober reflection but vigilance as well as the interrogation of the fundamentals of what led to the national embarrassment and desecration of the symbol of our democracy.

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“It is certainly obvious that there are more questions begging for answers for us as a nation so as to learn lessons from the patent global embarrassment. It is in this regard that there is the urgent need for an independent inquiry into the said attack on our democracy.

“Is it in accordance with due process in domestic security and intelligence services for the DG of the SSS to singlehandedly direct officers on such a major assignment? Who and who perfected the deployment with him within and outside the SSS hierarchy?”

Ajulo, who is the chairman, Board of Trustees, Egalitarian Mission for Africa, a non-profit leadership hub, also raised some posers.

“Is it true that a known senator and former governor in league with some senators and chieftains of a particular party were in the know of the deployment and facilitated the ‘attempted coup’ on the National Assembly with ‘resources?’

“Confident that there are answers to these and many other questions which are yet to be answered by the ‘express’ sack of Mr. Daura by the Federal Government, I am offering $10, 000 for credible information in this regard while calling on the international community to weigh in on the Nigerian Government to institute an independent probe of the siege to the NASS.”

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He said the membership of the probe panel should be drawn from civil society, the Nigerian Bar Association, media and government representatives “to unearth those that facilitated the blockade, those who held meetings with the erstwhile boss of the DSS and to what end”.

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