Former NSA asks court for help

An order of this honourable court extending its order of 3rd November 2015, wherein leave was granted the defendant/applicant to travel abroad, for the treatment of his ailing medical condition.


Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) (City News)

The former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has approached the Federal High Court, in Abuja, to compel the Department of State Services (DSS), to allow him travel for his cancer treatment.

According to Punch Newspapers, he wants the court to grant “An order dispensing with further appearance of the defendant/applicant in the proceedings conducted in this case, save for specific circumstances in which this honorable court so directs; or at least for an order dispensing with his appearance for the purposes of hearing this application.

Nigeria's National Security Advisor Mohammed Sambo Dasuki listens to a question after his address at Chatham House in London, January 22, 2015.