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The Federal High Court in Abuja affirmed the bail granted the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) in the amended charges of unlawful possession of fire-arms and money-laundering brought against him by the Federal Government.

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Justice Ahmed Rahmat Mohammed affirmed the bail of Dasuki shortly after taken Dasuki’s plea in the amended seven count charges.
The judge said that since the prosecution counsel Mr. Oladipo Okpeseyi (SAN) did not object to the bail of the ex-NSA, the court has to affirm same and ordered the defendant to continue to enjoy the bail condition granted him in 2015 when he was first arraigned.
Dasuki had in 2015 been admitted to bail by Justice Adeniyi Ademola but the bail order was not obeyed by the Federal Government including other bails granted by Justice Peter Affen and Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf of the FCT High Court. The ECOWAS Court too  ordered the immediate release Dasuki, describing his detention as illegal and unlawful. With all the court orders, the former NSA has remained in the custody of the Department of State Service (DSS) without any legal justification.
In the amended charges, Dasuki was accused of being in possession of prohibited firearms without the requisite licences in July 2015 contrary to Section 28 of the Firearm Act Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
He was specifically alleged to have been in possession of Trevor Rifles at his residence in Abuja.
Besides the firearms Dasuki was also accused of money-laundering and was specifically said to have been in possession of $40,000, N5million and £20,000 allegedly in his house in July 2015 and said to be proceeds of unlawful act contrary to Section 15 (3) of the Money laundering prohibition act 2011.
The amended charges also indicated that a sum of $150,000 and N37mn being part of proceeds of unlawful act was also said to have been found in the Sokoto Residence of former NSA on July 16, 2015.
When the charges were read, Dasuki denied all of them.
Prosecution counsel thereafter informed the court of his readiness for trial and that he had a motion pending before the court for secret trial, seeking protection for witnesses billed to testify against the NSA.
Opeseyi informed the court that since the amended charges bears the same number with the previous charges, the court should exercise its order on the bail earlier granted the defendant by allowing him to continue to enjoy the bail.
However, counsel to Dasuki, Mr Ahmed Raji (SAN) agreed that the previous bail granted Dasuki be allowed to continue since there was no objection from the prosecution. Raji however said that he opposed the motion filed since June 3, 2016 seeking protection for prosecution witnesses on the ground that the motion was predicated on the old charge.
The senior Counsel informed the court that the prosecution had in January 23, 2017 filed an application on the same issue and wondered why the prosecution chose to dance backward to the motion of 2016 instead of going ahead with that of 2017.
He urged the court to allow him time to look for the counter-affidavit filed by his client against the 2016 motion so as to enable him respond appropriately as required by law.
Raji told the court that the issue of trial should not be decided now by the court until the issue of Secret Trial being sought by the prosecution in the matter has been resolved.
Justice Mohammed, while affirming the bail granted Dasuki in 2015, adjourned the matter till May 11, 2017 for the motion for Secret Trial to be determined.
It would be recalled that Justice Adeniyi Ademola had in 2015 dismissed the application for Secret Trial of the NSA on the ground that the prosecution had already filed the names and addresses of all the witnesses in respect of Dasuki trial and made same available to the general public. Justice Ademola had then reasoned that since the identities of the witnesses had already been made available to the public there was no need for the prosecution to seek to engage in the Secret trial of  the defendant.
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