Courts Fix Thursday, Friday To Rule On Dasuki, Others' Bail Applications

Former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki; the former Minister of State for Finance, Mallam Bashir Yuguda; former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa and three others have denied allegations of diversions, misappropriation and breech of public trust in respect of N19.4 billion criminal charges brought against them by the Federal Government.

The six accused persons are on trial for allegedly misappropriating the money.

They were arraigned on 22-count charges before Justice Peter Affem of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court.
When the charges were read to them, all the accused persons pleaded not guilty.

Counsel to the Federal Government, Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), requested for an adjournment of the trial till next year to enable him assemble his witnesses.

However, counsel to Dasuki, Mr Ahmed Raji (SAN), raised the issue of bail for the accused persons, adding that motions for their bail had been filed and served on the prosecution.

Jacobs confirmed that he had been served with application for bail of all the accused persons and with the consent of all the lawyers in the trial, the trial judge, Justice Peter Affem, adjourned hearing in the bail application till Wednesday, December 16.

He also ordered that the accused persons be kept in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) until their bail is decided tomorrow.

Meanwhile in another High Court of FCT presided by Justice Sani Yusuf, the court adjourned its bail ruling till Friday.

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