THE Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday, September 29, ordered the Department of State Service, DSS, to produce Sambo Dasuki, a retired colonel and the detained former national security adviser, before a federal high court in Abuja to enable him testify in defence of Olisa Metuh, a former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

In a unanimous judgement delivered by its three-man panel, the Court of Appeal also ordered Justice Okon Abang, the trial judge 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 read the lead judgement of the appellate court, directed Abang to indicate the date which the DSS must produce Dasuki in court and other subsequent dates.

It upheld Metuh’s appeal and nullified the ruling delivered by Abang on February 23, 2017, when the judge  refused to grant Metuh’s application for a subpoena to be issued and served on Dasuki.

– Sept. 29, 2017 @ 17:57 GMT |