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Moves by ex-National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki to have cases filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) thrown out for alleged disobedience of court order, hit the rocks on Friday, as Justice Peter Affen of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja, ruled that his continued detention did not violate an earlier order granting the ex-NSA bail on December 21, 2015.

Dasuki had applied to the court for the dismissal of his trial for alleged diversion of N19bn arms funds on the grounds that his re-arrest on December 29, 2015 violated the order of the court granting him bail.

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According to Justice Affen, the application lacked merit just as he ordered that the case must continue. He also fixed April 20 and 22 for trial.

It would be recalled that Justice Baba Yusuf, also of the FCT High Court, had made a similar ruling on February 8.
In his ruling, Justice Affen said since it was clear that the ex-NSA was not re-arrested by the EFCC but by the Department of State Service (DSS), the EFCC could not be said to have violated the said order granting him bail. He added that though the EFCC and the DSS were both federal agencies, the wrongdoing of one could not be blamed on the order.

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