By Ise-Oluwa Ige
ABUJA—CHIEF Raymond Dokpesi, the embattled Director-General of Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s 2011 Presidential Campaign, yesterday, visited a Federal High Court sitting in Maitama for reasons he refused to disclose to newsmen.

He was, however, in court, yesterday, with two pupils from the Chambers of former Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN.

The lawyers were clutching a file containing processes which Vanguard suspected Dokpesi had come to file in court.

He was at the registry of the high court for more than one hour yesterday.

A staff of the registry who preferred anonymity told Vanguard that Dokpesi was in court to file an application for enforcement of his fundamental human rights against the State Security Service, SSS.

Further harassments

The source said he wanted an order barring men of the SSS from further harassing, arresting or detaining him in connection with the two bombs that went off in Abuja on October 1, 2010 which claimed more than 10 lives.

He said he was not sure whether he was claiming any damages against the SSS over his earlier arrest, interrogation and detention. The source said he would suggest that the processes be got to confirm the details of his reliefs in court.

But attempts to get confirmation from Dokpesi on what exactly he came to do in court proved abortive.

For instance, when he came out of a registry room on the third floor of the high court complex where he spent almost one hour with the two lawyers from Chief Agabi’s chambers at 11:18 a.m and headed for a rest room on the first floor of the  complex, journalists followed him but he refused to talk to them on his mission.

He was only smiling and shaking hands with them.
As he would not talk on his mission, journalists asked him to expatiate on the chat he had with newsmen at the weekend on what he knew about the October 1, bomb blast, Dokpesi smiled and said “thank you”.

All other questions asked by the newsmen while following him from the first floor of the high court complex to the open park where his black Toyota Land_cruiser jeep with registration number CB 372 KTU, was parked were answered with “thank you.”

He drove out of the high court premises at 11: 26 a.m. The two lawyers accompanying him later came out. They were clutching a case file.

They confirmed that they wanted to file a case for Dokpesi but they said that they would not talk about it until it was filed.

They told newsmen that they would come back but they did not.
Attempts to get the facts of the case from the Chief Kanu Agabi’s chambers also was futile.