COVID-19 Stalls Dasuki’s Trial

The trial of erstwhile National Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) and four others was on Tuesday adjourned to April 13, 2021 following reports that one of the defendants had contracted COVID-19. Dasuki’s trial was at an Abuja Federal High Court.

The trial judge, Justice H. Baba of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, gave the order at the resumed trial on Tuesday.

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,” he said at the resumption of Dasuki’s trial.

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.

Dasuki’s trial on this charge is separate from other cases that were leveled against him by the Federal Government following the ascension of the Muhammadu Buhari administration in 2015.

Dasuki served as National Security Adviser in the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

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