Nigeria: Seizure of International Passport - Sanusi Misled Court, Says DSS

8 April 2014

Fresh facts have emerged on the running battle between the embattled suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, and the federal government over the alleged harassment, arrest and confiscation of Sanusi's passport by operatives of the Department for State Security (DSS) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.

In a fundamental human right enforcement suit filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos, Sanusi had accused the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Inspector-General of Police of harassing him through the DSS which he sued as the third respondents for seizing his international passport.

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