Sambo
Dasuki
The Federal Government has accused
the immediate past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, of avoiding trial
in order to keep “the magnitude” of his alleged wrongs against the country away
from the public.
The Government stated this in a
counter-affidavit which it filed before a Federal High Court in Abuja in
opposition to an application by Dasuki seeking an order discharging him from
further standing trial on charges of money laundering and illegal possession of
firearms instituted against him.
The ex-NSA had predicated his
application on the grounds of Federal Government’s alleged “brazen”
disobedience of a series of orders of court granting him bail.
He urged the court in his application
to discharge him and prohibit the Federal Government from further prosecuting
him on the grounds that his re-arrest by the DSS was tantamount to Federal
Government’s alleged act of assault on the court which had released him on
bail.
The Federal Government, through the
office of the Attorney-General of the Federation is prosecuting Dasuki before
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court in Abuja on four counts of
money laundering and illegal possession of firearms.
In its counter-affidavit to Dasuki’s
application filed by the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Dipo Okpeseyi (SAN), the
Federal Government denied the allegation of disobeying the order granting bail
to Dasuki with respect to the case.