Standup9ja: DSS blames oversight for Dasuki’s absence in
court
The Department of State Services (DSS) said its failure to
bring former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki to an FCT High Court
on Tuesday, for his ongoing N13.6 billion fraud trial was an oversight.
At the resumed hearing yesterday, counsel to the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) told the court that
he was told by the Director of Legal at the DSS that Tuesday's failure to bring
Dasuki to court was not deliberate.
He said he made series of efforts to contact the director
when he noticed that Dasuki was not in court again yesterday but was unable to
reach him.
“I immediately contacted my client, the EFCC, who also
approached the DSS. The information I received was that the first defendant
(Dasuki) will not come to court today on the grounds that he's
indisposed", Jacobs said while applying for an adjournment.
Yesterday made it the third time in less than one week that
the DSS failed to produce Dasuki for trials being prosecuted by EFCC.
While not opposing the application for adjournment, Dasuki’s
counsel, Chief Joseph Daudu (SAN), said the development “appears to be an
inter-agency issue", while urging the court to place it on record that the
defence was not trying to frustrate the trial as adjournment was at instance of
the prosecution.
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