On Monday, a federal high court
sitting in Abuja granted bail to Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser
(NSA).
This is not the first time Dasuki
will be granted bail. The court has released him on five previous occasions but
the federal government refused to honour the order, in some cases filing fresh
charges against him.
Dasuki was arrested by operatives
of the Department of State Services (DSS) in 2015 over alleged diversion of
$2.1billion arms funds.
Here are all the times the court
has granted him bail:
AUGUST 2015
Dasuki was first granted bail on
August 30, 2015, by Adeniyi Ademola, then presiding judge of the federal
capital teritory (FCT) high court.
Ademola granted Dasuki bail on
self recognition following no objections by Mohammed Diri, the prosecuting
counsel.
DECEMBER 2015
On December 18, 2015, Hussein
Baba Yusuf, justice of the FCT high court granted Dasuki bail in the sum of
N250 million bail alongside Salisu Shuaibu, a director of finance in the office
of the NSA and one Aminu Kusa.
They were asked to provide a
surety who owns a property in the FCT worth N250 million.
JANUARY 2017
On January 24, 2017, Yusuf
reaffirmed the bail on Dasuki on the grounds that he was entitled to it and
having being admitted to same since 2015 when the federal government brought
criminal charges against him.
Dasuki and five others were
re-arraigned before Yusuf on criminal charges that were transferred from Peter
Affen of the FCT high court.
Ahmed Raji, counsel to Dasuki,
applied to the court to reaffirm the bail granted to the ex-NSA even though he
has not “been allowed to enjoy” same since December 2015.
Raji argued that it was wrong of
Rotimi Jacobs, prosecuting counsel, to have objected to the reaffirmation of
the bail condition on Dasuki.
He added that Dasuki had in his
possession, a judgment of the ECOWAS court which in 2016 set aside the unlawful
detention of the ex-NSA.
APRIL 2017
Ahmed Mohammed, presiding judge
of FCT high court, on April 5, 2017, reaffirmed the 2015 bail granted Dasuki
after hearing the ex-NSA’s appeal of the amended seven-count charge against
him.
Mohammed said since the prosecution
counsel, Oladipo Opeseyi, did not object to Dasuki’s appeal, the court had to
affirm same.
MAY 2018
Yusuf, on May 18, 2018, further
reaffirmed the bail he granted Dasuki in 2015.
Dasuki was arraigned on 32 counts
amended charges along with Aminu Kusa, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance
Referral Hospital.
Adeola Adedekpe, counsel to
Dasuki, pleaded with the court to grant the defendants bail in liberal terms in
view of the fact that they have been attending their trial since 2015.
Yusuf ruled that they continue to
enjoy the bail he granted them in 2015 when they were first arraigned before
his court.
JULY 2018
Ijeoma Ojukwu, the presiding
judge, on July 2, described Dasuki’s continuous detention as an aberration to
the rule of law.
Ojukwu subsequently granted
Dasuki a N200 million and two sureties in like sum.
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