The immediate past National Security
Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), has filed a fresh application asking
a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama to discharge him for
the alleged crime of diversion of funds said to be meant for the
procurement of arms.
He filed the application before Justice
Affen with respect to the 22 counts of fraud filed against him and
others including a former Director of Finance and Administration in the
Office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, and a former Minister of State for
Finance, Bashir Yuguda.
Others charged along with them are a
former Governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, his son, Sagir, and a
firm, Dalhatu Investment.
Dasuki had filed a similar application
before Justice Baba Yusuf of the same Maitama Division of the FCT High
Court to the 19 counts of diversion of N32bn arms fund, instituted
against him, Salisu and a former Director of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, Aminu Baba-Kusa.
Aminu-Kausa’s two firms – Acacia
Holdings Ltd. and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited – are also part of
the accused named as defendants.
Dasuki in his separate applications
before the two judges contended that his continued detention in the
custody of the Department of State Services amounted to a “brazen”
violation of orders of Justice Yusuf granting bail to him on December
18, 2015 and the orders by Justice Affen, also granting bail to him on
December 21, 2015.
He urged the court to stop the EFCC from prosecuting him until the orders of the courts were complied with.He also sought as alternative prayers, an order of the court to stay proceedings in the case.
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