Illegal Firearms: Court Dismisses Dasuki’s Application For Indefinite Adjournment

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed a motion by the detained immediate-past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), seeking an order to suspend and adjourn indefinitely his trial on charges of illegal possession of firearms and money laundering.

In his ruling, Justice Ahmed Mohammed held that Dasuki’s application, founded on a non-existing reference of a question of law to the Court of Appeal for determination and with a likely effect of staying the proceedings in the trial, was misconceived and lacked merit.

Dasuki’s counsel, Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN), had, at the hearing of his client’s motion on October 17, asked the court to adjourn the trial indefinitely pending the hearing and determination of the ex-NSA’s motion for stay of proceedings filed before the Court of Appeal, Abuja