The Department of State
Services has finally produced the detained former National Security Adviser,
Sambo Dasuki, in compliance with an order of the Federal High Court in
Abuja
that the ex-NSA should appear as a witness in the ongoing trial of a former
Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Olisa Metuh.
He was produced by DSS
operatives ahead of the Wednesday’s proceedings which commenced exactly 9 am.
He was decked in a light
blue attire with a cap to match.
On Tuesday, despite the
request by defence lawyers for an order of arrest to be issued against the
Director-General of the DSS, Lawal Daura, for failing to produce the ex-NSA in
court, the trial judge, Justice Okon Abang ruled that he could not yet conclude
that the DSS top man deliberately flouted the court order.
But the counsel prosecuting
Metuh and his company, Destra Investments Limited on behalf of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Sylvanus Tahir, had informed the court on
Tuesday that the Legal Adviser of DSS informed him over the telephone that
Dasuki refused to be brought to court except by force.
Tahir later told the judge
that he received a text message from the Legal Adviser of DSS saying after much
persuasion, Dasuki agreed to appear in court on Tuesday.
But the judge had ruled on
Tuesday that whether or not Dasuki and another subpoenaed witness, former
President Goodluck Jonathan, would go ahead to testify would depend on the
outcome of the court’s rulings on the summoned witnesses’ application objecting
to Metuh’s request for them to testify in the case.
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