Justice Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Federal Government to produce the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), in court on February 16.
The Judge gave the order on Wednesday with respect to the charges of money laundering and illegal possession of firearms preferred against Dasuki by the Federal Government.
Justice Ademola ordered that the accused person be presented in court after both the prosecution and the defence lawyers withdrew various interlocutory applications they had earlier filed.
He ordered that the accused must be produced in court and subsequently adjourned the matter till February 16 for commencement of trial.
The Judge also added that he would deliver his pending ruling on the prosecution’s application for witness protection before proceeding to trial on February 16.
He, however, fixed ‘additional trial’ date for February 17.
It will be recalled that Dasuki was re-arrested earlier this month by the operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, shortly after he was released from Kuje Prison upon fulfilling the conditions of bail earlier granted him in December 2015 by Justice Yusuf Baba of the FCT High Court in Maitama, Abuja.
The four counts preferred against the former NSA before Justice Ademola are unrelated to the two separate sets of charges bordering on alleged diversion of arms funds pending against Dasuki and others before two judges of the Federal Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja.
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