Dasuki, through his lawyer, Joseph Daudu (SAN), filed the application dated January 11, before Justice Peter Affen, urging the court to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from prosecuting him.
The former NSA argues that the EFCC which is prosecuting him and other persons in the name of the Federal Republic of Nigeria could not continue to prosecute him after orders of the court granting him bail on December 21, 2015.
He filed the application with respect to the 22 counts of fraud filed against him and others including Shuaibu Salisu the former director of finance and administration in the office of the NSA and Bashir Yuguda former minister of state for finance.
Others charged include former Governor of Sokoto state, Attahiru Bafarawa, his son, Sagir, and a firm, Dalhatu Investment.
Dasuki had filed a similar application before Justice Baba Yusuf of the same Maitama Division of the FCT High Court to the 19 counts of diversion of N32bn arms fund, instituted against him, Salisu and a former Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Aminu Baba-Kusa.
Aminu-Kausa’s two firms Acacia Holdings Ltd. and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited are also part of the accused named as defendants.
Dasuki in his separate applications before the two judges argued that his continued detention in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) amounted to violation of orders of Justice Yusuf granting bail to him on December 18, 2015 and the orders by Justice Affen, also granting bail to him on December 21, 2015.
He urged the court to stop the EFCC from prosecuting him until the orders of the courts were complied with.
In another development, the trial of Dasuki and four others has been stalled due to the inability of the EFCC to produce him in court.
A Federal Capital Territory High Court on Tuesday, February 2 adjourned the trial as the prosecution made excuses for Dasuki’s absence in court.
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