Arms Deal: Dasuki Opposes DSS’ Request To Represent Exhibits At Trial

Former nationalist information adviser, (NSA) Col Sambo Dasuki, has told Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, to crook down the Department of State Service (DSS’) petition to correspond exhibits erstwhile the tribunal rejects them successful the proceedings against him.

The DSS dragged the erstwhile NSA earlier the tribunal implicit unlawful possession of firearms.

The tribunal fixed the ruling connected October 14 pursuing the petition of the DSS pb lawyer, Oladipupo Okpeseyi, SAN, to correspond the rejected exhibits.

In a astonishing move, Okpeseyi, SAN, successful the mediate of the proceedings, applied orally to Justice Lifu to displacement the sitting of the tribunal to DSS Headquarters successful Abuja for the intent of inspecting immoderate vehicles said to person been recovered successful Dasuki’s location during the 2015 hunt warrant.

He said the vehicles person been parked astatine the DSS office for the past 10 years and should beryllium inspected by the tribunal earlier being admitted arsenic exhibits against Dasuki.

Apparently taken aback by the request, the Judge asked for the quality of the exhibits to beryllium inspected astatine the DSS headquarters.

In response, Dasuki’s counsel, Mr Aliyu Usman from Ahmed Raji, SAN Chambers, submitted that the court, having decided connected the exhibits, cannot revisit and admit them again.

He work retired the judge’s earlier ruling, successful which it was intelligibly stated that the rejected exhibits person nary relevance to the alleged unlawful possession of firearms and frankincense failed the trial of admissibility.

Dasuki’s lawyer argued that the lone enactment unfastened to the DSS was to spell to the Court of Appeal to situation the earlier rejection of the exhibits alternatively than inviting the aforesaid Judge to beryllium arsenic an Appeal Court connected the aforesaid matter.

He pleaded with Justice Lifu to propulsion distant the exertion arsenic baseless, ill-conceived, misplaced, unwarranted, and a ploy to gully the manus of the timepiece backwards.

After proceeding the arguments for and against, Justice Lifu fixed October 14 to regularisation connected the exertion and to proceed the trial.