The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday
ordered Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Service to produce the
detained former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, before a Federal High
Court in Abuja to enable him testify in defence of a former National Publicity
Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh.
In a
unanimous judgement delivered by its three-man panel, the Appeals Court also
ordered the trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, of the Federal High Court, Abuja
before whom Metuh is being prosecuted to immediately sign the subpoena filed by
the ex-PDP spokesperson. Justice Peter Ige, who prepared and read the lead
judgement of the appellate court, directed Justice Abang to indicate the date
which the DSS must produce Dasuki in court and other subsequent dates.
The court
upheld Metuh’s appeal and nullified the ruling delivered by Justice Abang on
February 23, 2017, when he refused to grant Metuh’s application for a subpoena
to be issued and served on Dasuki.
News
Source: - Daily Times | September 29, 2017.
Photo Source: - Daily Post | July 17, 2015.
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