Browsing: Colonel Sambo Dasuki

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this while responding to a statement credited to a former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd.), that the last administration cleared the North East of Boko Haram terrorists to make election possible in the affected areas in 2015

Dasuki stated this in his foreword to a 308-page new book titled: “Boko Haram Media War – An Encounter with the Spymaster,” written by Yushau A. Shuaib.

The allegation was leveled against the Roberts when the ONSA was  headed by the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd).

Dasuki is being prosecuted on a seven-count charge bordering on theft of Federal Government’s sophisticated weapons, illegal possession of firearms and money laundering.

The judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, held that the e-payment schedule of N3.12 billion issued from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and N2.5 billion from office of the National Security Adviser did not meet the provision of the Evidence Act

It is not the first time the DSS will defy the court’s order to produce Dasuki

This is the fourth time the government will refuse to produce him in court for trial

The government insisted that Dasuki, being a former military officer, former aide de camp to a former President, former NSA and a crown prince of Sokoto caliphate was a potential threat to its witnesses lined up to justify the charges against him

The judge had on March 21 ordered the EFCC to retract an offensive press statement issued by EFCC, which was published in Vanguard Newspaper

Dasuki had been credited with forging the alliance between Buhari, and a former Governor of Lagos State and now National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Victor Ehiabhi, the first witness to testify in Fani-Kayode’s trial, said he was sent by the defendant to accompany his gardener, Francis, and a domestic staff, Esther, to the NSA’s office

Tsav, in a statement in which he declared support for the position of a former Governor of Kaduna State, retired Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, said Buhari should not use detention as a means of punishing those who are undergoing trial

The position of Umar, the Chairman of the Movement for Unity and Progress and former Military Governor of Kaduna State, was contained in a statement he issued on Sunday

The judge dismissed the oral claim by the counsel to the EFCC, Ofem Uket, that the anti-graft agency had retracted the offending publication because the lawyer failed to produce any document or evidence before the court to ascertain its claim

Counsel to the Federal Government, Oladipo Okpeseyi, brought this to the notice of the court when Dasuki was re-arraigned before Justice Ahmed Mohammed on a seven-count amended charge

Ashinze was an aide to former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki

Dasuki is being tried alongside others on charges of corruption and money laundering

Dasuki had said it would amount to double jeopardy having to answer to two suits based on same evidence and charges

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it froze Ozekhome’s account because the money was suspected to be proceeds of crime

N162.8 million was said to have been withdrawn from the account into which the money was paid in one day