The Department of State Services have again deliberately delayed the trial of Sambo Dasuki as the Judge of the Federal Capital Territory High Court is forced to adjourn the trial.
Former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki
It was yet another deadlock as the trial of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), and his co-defendants for alleged diversion of N13bn, part of funds said to be meant for procurement of arms, was stalled before Justice Peter Affen of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday.
The trial was stalled today (Tuesday) after officials of the the Department of State Service failed to produce the ex-NSA in court on time and the need for the other co-defendants to respond to an application by Dasuki to stop the trial.
Dasuki was brought to court when Justice Affen was adjourning the case which stopped the trial from holding. The judge could not do anything as he adjourned till February 26.
It would be recalled that the same scenario which happened on Tuesday had played out in the trial of the ex-NSA’s trial before Justice Baba Yusuf of the same Maitama Division of the FCT High Court on January 22.
Justice Yusuf had then adjourned Dasuki’s trial till February 4. Now, the same thing happened again.
Dasuki is being prosecuted before the court on 19 counts of diversion of N32bn arms fund, along with a former Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the NSA, Shuaibu 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.