{"id":11930,"date":"2016-10-15T18:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T18:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11930"},"modified":"2016-10-15T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T18:47:55","slug":"my-arrest-was-a-vendetta-from-ag-and-bail-granted-to-kanu-dasuki-justice-ademola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11930","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My arrest was a vendetta from AG and bail granted to Kanu, Dasuki&#8221; &#8211; Justice Ademola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=11127&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Adeniyi Ademola, a judge of the federal high court Abuja, says he was arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) because he granted Sambo Dasuki bail and freed Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) leader.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, some judges\u2019 homes were raided by the DSS on allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>But in a letter dated October 11, addressed to Mahmoud Mohamm<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/justice-adeniyi-ademola-620x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11931\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/justice-adeniyi-ademola-620x400-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"justice-adeniyi-ademola-620x400\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/justice-adeniyi-ademola-620x400-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/justice-adeniyi-ademola-620x400.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ed, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), Ademola said he was held for over 24 hours before he was told the reason why he was brought to the DSS office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Upon signing the document, they told me that I am under arrest and ordered me with guns still pointed at me to move outside. As I was going, they told me they were taking me to their office, Department of State Services (DSS) office, without showing any warrant of arrest,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI obeyed them and about six o\u2019clock in the morning, I was whisked away from my residence to the DSS office without any warrant of arrest or reason for my arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the time of my arrival at the DSS office, at about 6:45am on 8\/10\/2016, I was not told what my crime was for over 24 hours till the evening of 9\/10\/2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA DSS officially finally informed me that the search of my arrest were based on these three allegations; petition of Hon. Jenkins Duvie dated 4th of April 2016 to the National Judicial Council (NJC); granting bail to Col. Sambo Dasuki and the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu; and using my office to secure my wife\u2019s appointment as the head of civil service state through Senator Bola Tinubu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ademola said he saw his arrest as revenge from Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), whose arrest and detention he ordered over a professional misconduct while he was judge in Kano between 2004 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is more intriguing in this whole episode, is that I see it as a vendetta\/revenge from the Hon. attorney general of the federation, Abubakar Malami, whilst I was in Kano between 2004 and 2007 as a federal high court judge was involved in a professional misconduct necessitating his arrest and detention by my order,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, with the intervention of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Kano branch the allegation of misconduct was later withdrawn by me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=11127&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adeniyi Ademola, a judge of the federal high court Abuja, says he was arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) because he granted Sambo Dasuki bail and freed Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) leader. 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