Ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki Detained In Kuje Prison

Justice Peter Affem of the FCT High Court has ordered former NSA Sambo Dasuki be remanded in Kuje prison in Abuja, pending the perfection of the condition of a bail granted to him on Monday.

Dasuki alongside Attahiru Bafarawa; Bashir Yuguda; Shuaibu Salisu; and Sagir, Bafarawa’s son: were granted bail in the sum of N250m each. 

But the judge had asked the accused persons to provide two sureties in like sum as well as deposit their international passports at the court. 

Before granting the bail, he held that “bail was not about setting anybody free” but that “the primary essence of bail is to ensure that the accused person attends trial”. 

He adjourned the case to February 2 and 3, 2016. 

Last Wednesday, the EFCC arraigned the accused on a 22-count charge of conspiracy, bribery, abuse of office and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N28billion. They all pleaded not guilty to the charges. 

On Friday, Hussein Baba-Yusuf, justice of the FCT high court, Abuja, also granted Dasuki and five other persons bail in the sum of N250m each. 

Dasuki alongside Salisu, a former director of finance and administration at the office of the NSA; Aminu Babakusa, a former general manager at the NNPC; Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited are also being prosecuted by the EFCC on a 19-count charge bordering on money laundering and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N13 billion.

Trial in all the case will commence early 2016.