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Mustapha Fawaz, Abdullahi Thahini and Tahal Roda, accused of complicity in the illegal importation of arms into Nigeria, yesterday, appealed to the Federal High Court Abuja to transfer them from the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, to Kuje Prison.
The accused sited alleged interference from foreign agents as the reason they wanted to be moved. Chief Raji Ahmed, SAN, Lawyer to the first and second accused person Mr. Mustapha Fawaz and Mr Abdullahi Thahini, told the court that the DSS earlier left them at the mercy of foreign mercenaries who they said interrogated them for 14 days.
“We apply to be transferred to a neutral place, possibly the police headquarters or Kuje prison,” they pleaded.
The third accused person, Roda,in his testimony yesterday, narrated in the open court, how another Lebanese, Abdul Hassan Tahir, told him about a plot to assassination of the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Nigeria.
Justice Ademola Adeniyi granted the accused their wish and ordered that they be transferred from custody of the DSS to the kuje prison forthwith, even as he adjourned the case until Monday.
