ECOWAS COURT ORDERS FGN TO RELEASE DASUKI

The Court of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Tuesday declared the arrest and detention of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, as unlawful and arbitrary.

He approached the ECOWAS court after he was rearrested by members of Nigeria's State Security Service shortly after meeting his bail conditions in November last year.

According to the said section, a superior police officer may authorise the search of a resident belonging to a suspect assumed to be in illegal possession of an item, if the officer so authorised has a search warrant.