Buhari: Why Dasuki, Nnamdi Kanu Cannot Be Released.

ABUJA - President Muhammadu Buhari, during his first presidential media chat yesterday, disclosed why the federal government refused to release the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, regardless of their attempts to secure bail from the court.

The president maintained that the two accused persons cannot be allowed to enjoy any form of freedom due to the enormity of their crimes.

“”If you see the atrocities these people committed against this country, we can’t allow them to jump bail,” he said.

Speaking on the level of corruption being unearthed in the last administration, President Buhari said Dasuki was simply sharing government’s money the way he liked.

“They would just say to Central Bank give so and so, 40 billion naira just like that; 40 billion,” he said.

He also said it would be bad to allow Mr. Dasuki “travel to London to see his doctor” arguing, “What of the over two million people displaced, most of them orphans whose fathers have been killed, what type of government do you want to run? We cannot allow that”.

As for Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Buhari also said despite having two international passports, one for Britain and the other for Nigeria, Mr. Kanu “did not use any of them to come into the country”.

He also said the IPOB leader smuggled in equipment with which he came in to preach hate messages.

Source: Nigerian Bulletin