Dasuki Loses Bid To Stop His Trial

  

Embattled ex NSA Sambo Dasuki has lost in  another attempt to stop the federal government from prosecuting him. Federal High Court  sitting in Abuja on Tuesday rejected an application  he filed,seeking an order discharging him of charges preferred against him and another order prohibiting the Federal Government from further prosecuting him.


Colonel Dasuki, had on March 3, also asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop his trial. He also asked the court to set aside the criminal charges of unlawful possession of fire arms brought against him by the Federal Government.

But presiding judge in the case, Justice Ademola Adebiyi, ruled that the former NSA did not follow proper process in filing a contempt charge against the federal government; hence it is out of place for him (Dasuki) to ask that the charges brought against him be dropped for reasons not weighty.
He told the court that the Federal Government no longer has moral and legal rights to continue his trial having disobeyed the order of bail granted him since Nov 3, 2015.The Court refused his application as the trail judge, Justice Peter Affem, held that contrary to the application by Colonel Dasuki, it was the Department of State Services (DSS), which was not a party in the suit that arrested Colonel Dasuki and not the EFCC.
He agreed with the anti-graft agency that it had not flouted any part of the orders releasing the former National Security Adviser (NSA) on bail.
 Abuja High Court  on April 6, fixed May 3 for his trial