Justice H. Baba of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, has
on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, adjourned the trial of a former National
Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) and four others to
April 13, 2021.
At the resumed trial today, Obinna Mbata, counsel to the second and
third defendants informed the court that the second defendant was absent
due to ill-health, and urged the court to grant them an adjournment. “We
got confirmation that he contracted COVID-19. In the absence, we will
be praying the indulgence of the court for a date sometime in April,
subject to the convenience of the court.”
However, prosecution counsel O A, Atolagbe informed the Court that he
had his witnesses in court but lamented the absence of the second
defendant.
Counsel to the first and fourth defendants did not object to the
application for adjournment.
Thereafter, Justice Baba adjourned the matter till April 13 and 14,
2021, for continuation of trial.
Dasuki, along with Shuaibu Salisu, a former Director of Finance and
Administration, Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA; Aminu
Babakusa, a former General Manager, Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation; Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital
Limited are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, on a 32-count charge bordering on money laundering and
criminal breach of trust to the tune of N29, 000,000,000.