The embattled National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki
(retd.), has filed a fresh application to stop his trial for charges of alleged
diversion of about $2.1bn, part of funds meant for procurement of arms, before
Justice Baba Yusuf of a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja.
The judge, however, on Thursday, fixed Friday, 22nd of Dec.,
2016 for the commencement of trial of Dasuki and his other co-accused.
Others who were on December 14, 2015 arraigned along with
Dasuki on the same set of 19 counts are a former Director of Finance and
Administration in the Office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, and a former Director
of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Aminu Baba-Kusa.
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