Federal Government is not detaining Colonel Sambo Dasuki retired indefinitely.

Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, who said this while speaking on Friday in Abuja, explained that a media propaganda was being staged to “give the impression that the Federal Government has refused to release him on bail’’.

Obono-Obla assured that nobody was detaining Dasuki indefinitely, saying there had been a lot of manipulation, media propaganda giving the impression that the Federal Government has refused to release him on bail.

According to him, it is not true; what happened was that he has several charges against him, saying the first charge was unlawful possession of fire arms which he was arrested and arraigned in the Federal High Court and was granted bail and he met the bail conditions, but before he was released, the SSS arrested him for an offence that is unrelated to that one of unlawful possession.

Speaking on the alleged detention of suspects without trial, Obono-Obla said detaining suspects for more than 48 hours without trial amounted to a breach of the provisions of the Constitution.

The Presidential aide said counsels to defendants always used frivolous motions to delay trials because the judges were not firm.

Obono-Obla stated that the President is depending on the National Prosecution Coordinating Committee to improve the standard of prosecuting public officers that have looted the country’s treasury.

He, however, said the anti-graft war should be seen as a collective fight, adding that the President needed the support of the judiciary, legislature and the public to succeed.