Another judge of a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, Justice Peter Affen, on Friday ruled that the continued detention of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), did not violate the order granting the ex-NSA bail on December 21, 2015.
Justice Affen dismissed the application by Dasuki seeking to stop his trial for alleged diversion of N19bn arms funds on the grounds that his re-arrest on December 29, 2015 violated the order of the court.
Earlier, Justice Baba Yusuf of the same court on February 8, made similar declaration that the detention of the former NSA was not in breach of his order granting bail to him on December 18, 2015.
The judge had fixed March 23 for the commencement of trial with respect to charges of alleged diversion of N32bn arms fund preferred against him and others.
Justice Affen ruled on Friday that the application lacked merit and ordered that the trial of the ex-NSA, who was charged along with others in the case, would commence on April 20 and 22.
Dasuki was re-arrested by operatives of the Department of State Service on December 29, 2015 shortly after he was released from Kuje Prison upon fulfilling the bail conditions imposed on him by the two judges of the FCT High Court in Maitama.
