{"id":125843,"date":"2019-06-12T10:13:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T09:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125843"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T09:15:46","slug":"efcc-vs-nsa-court-fixes-july-1-for-dasukis-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125843","title":{"rendered":"EFCC vs NSA: Court fixes July 1 for Dasuki\u2019s trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of an FCT High Court, on Tuesday fixed July 1 for commencement of trial for former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and Amb. Bashir Yuguda, in the alleged misappropriation of N19. 4 billion arms funds.<\/p>\n

According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) the EFCC charged Dasuki, Yuguda alongside former Governor of Sokoto State Attahiru Bafarawa, his son, Sagir and his company Dalhatu Investment Limited.<\/p>\n

The EFCC charged them with 25 counts bordering on criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of public fund to the tune N19. 4 billion.<\/p>\n

According to Baba-Yusuf, the Department of State Security(DSS) wrote a letter to the court alleging that Dasuki had refused to come to court.<\/p>\n

The letter was in response to a court order on April 16 on the DSS to produce Dasuki at the next adjourned date.<\/p>\n

The Prosecution Counsel, Mr Oluwaleke Otalagbe, applied for a date to enable them regularise and know steps to take before the next adjourned date.<\/p>\n

Other counsel aligned with Atolegbe, other defendants and their counsel were in court .<\/p>\n

Baba-Yusuf then adjourned to July 1 for hearing.<\/p>\n

Yuguda, Bafarawa and his son were in court on Tuesday.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of an FCT High Court, on Tuesday fixed July 1 for commencement of trial for former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and Amb. Bashir Yuguda, in the alleged misappropriation of N19. 4 billion arms funds. According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) the EFCC charged Dasuki, Yuguda alongside former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[4057,7824],"class_list":["post-125843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-bafarawa","tag-sambo-dasuki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}