A
High Court in Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, has granted bail
to immediate National Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd),
and four others being tried over alleged money laundering.
Justice
Husseini Baba Yusuf granted the bail to the accused persons in the sum
of N250m on the condition that each of them will produce a surety who
must be a serving or retired civil servant not lower than the rank of a
director. The judge ordered that the civil servants must also show
possession of a property within the FCT worth the same amount.
The
others arraigned with Dasuki are Former Director of Finance, Office of
the Natioanl Security Adviser (ONSA), Shuaibu Salisu, former Group
General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,
Aminu Baba Kusa and two firms, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance
Reference Hospital.
All
the accused were also requested to deposit copies of their
international passports with the court registrar. They are to also
required to bring to the attention of the court any travel arrangement
they may want to make outside the FCT.
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