Firearms Possession: Dasuki Opposes DSS Request To Re-present Exhibits Against Him

Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has told Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, to crook down the petition by the Department of the State Services (DSS) to re-present exhibits erstwhile rejected by the tribunal successful the proceedings against him.

Recall that the DSS had dragged the erstwhile NSA earlier the tribunal implicit unlawful possession of firearms.

The tribunal fixed October 14 for ruling pursuing petition to re-present the rejected exhibits by the DSS pb lawyer, Oladipupo Okpeseyi, SAN.

In a astonishment 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 wherefore executing a 2015 hunt warrant.

He said that the vehicles person been parked astatine the DSS office successful the past 10 years and should beryllium inspected by the tribunal for the intent of admitting them arsenic exhibits against Dasuki.

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

In response, Counsel to Dasuki, Mr Aliyu Usman, from Ahmed Raji Chambers, submitted that the court, having taken a determination connected the exhibits previously, cannot revisit the aforesaid exhibits and admit them again.

He work retired the earlier ruling of the Judge wherever it was intelligibly stated that the rejected exhibits had nary relevance to the alleged unlawful possession of firearms and frankincense failed the trial of admissibility.

Dasuki’s lawyer argued that the lone enactment opened 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 timepiece backward.

After taking the arguments for and against, Justice Lifu fixed October 14 to present ruling connected the exertion and for continuation of trial.