posted by Som Offor.
The immediate past National Security
Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) is set to appear before an Abuja
Federal High Court for allegedly being in possession of firearms without
license on Tuesday.
According to reports, the Federal Ministry of Justice had taken over
the case from the Department of State Security Service who had charged
Dasuki with the alleged offence punishable under section 27(I)(a)(I) of
the Firearms Act Cap F28 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
Punch reported that the trial ought to have commenced last week but it could not go on because of the directive of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmmud Mohammed, to various heads of court not to sit throughout the week to enable lawyers and interested judges to participate in the just-concluded one week-long Annual Bar Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association.
It further reported that the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, on Friday assigned the case to Justice Adeniyi Ademola, who is the court’s vacation judge.
It would be recalled that the DSS had on July 16, 2015 searched the ex-NSA’s homes in Asokoro, Abuja; and Sokoto, where it claimed to have recovered seven high calibre rifles, including magazines and military gears in the houses.
The secret service said there action was necessitated by credible intelligence, which linked him to acts capable of undermining national security and claimed Dasuki’s arraignment was in line with democratic practice and “our avowed commitment to the rule of law, in which nobody is deemed to be above the law, no matter how highly placed in the society.”
Meanwhile, the DSS has revealed that many members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram are now resident in Lagos and other states because of the intense pressure being put on them in the northeast of the country by the Nigerian military.
Ex-National Security Advisor Mohammed Sambo Dasuki
Punch reported that the trial ought to have commenced last week but it could not go on because of the directive of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmmud Mohammed, to various heads of court not to sit throughout the week to enable lawyers and interested judges to participate in the just-concluded one week-long Annual Bar Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association.
It further reported that the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, on Friday assigned the case to Justice Adeniyi Ademola, who is the court’s vacation judge.
It would be recalled that the DSS had on July 16, 2015 searched the ex-NSA’s homes in Asokoro, Abuja; and Sokoto, where it claimed to have recovered seven high calibre rifles, including magazines and military gears in the houses.
The secret service said there action was necessitated by credible intelligence, which linked him to acts capable of undermining national security and claimed Dasuki’s arraignment was in line with democratic practice and “our avowed commitment to the rule of law, in which nobody is deemed to be above the law, no matter how highly placed in the society.”
Meanwhile, the DSS has revealed that many members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram are now resident in Lagos and other states because of the intense pressure being put on them in the northeast of the country by the Nigerian military.
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