The Federal government has agreed to merge the criminal charges filed against the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (and others).
Dasuki is standing trial before two different High Courts in the FCT. The decision to combine the charges followed a complaint by the counsel to the former NSA, Mr Joseph Daudu.
Mr Daudu had argued that putting him on trial in two different courts on the same issues and subject would prejudice and cause him double jeopardy.
At the resumption of the trial, counsel to the Federal Government, Mr Rotimi Jacobs and that of Dasuki, Mr Dudu agreed before Justice Baba Yusuf to formally write the Chief Judge of the FCT judiciary, Justice Ishaq Bello, to consolidate the two charges in the interest of justice. Justice Yusuf therefore adjourned the case to the October 21, 2016.
