Dasuki is standing multiple trials at both FCT High Court and Federal High Court on allegations of illegal arms possession and misappropriation of 2.1 billion US dollars meant for purchase of military weapons.
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Security Adviser, retired Col Sambo Dasuki, pending outcome of judgment of the Supreme Court on his appeal.
Standing trial along with Dasuki are: a former minister Alhaji Bashir Yuguda, former Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser, Shuaibu Salisu, a former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, his son, Sagir and their family company Dalhatu Investment Limited.
Presidential Pension Reforms Task Force, Abdulrasheed Maina
Roberts and his wife are standing trial on a nine-count charge of fraud, arising from the money received from the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, for a contract they did not execute.
Some of the alleged fraud included the $2.1 billion arms purchase scandal allegedly involving a former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki; and several allegations against the former Minister of Petroleum Resources in the Goodluck Jonathan Administration, Diezani Alison-Maduekw.
Ajefu said: “We the members of CISA have noted with grave concern, the continuous illegal detention of the former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (Rtd). As a matter of fact, Friday, December 29, 2017 will make it exactly two years that he was re-arrested and detained on the orders of the Federal Government and has remained in incarceration since then.”
The panel of five Justices, led by Dattijo Mohammed, gave the date after counsels to the parties in the case adopted their addresses.
In the move to arrest both men, operatives of the agencies drew their guns, cocked and came close to shooting themselves
Jonathan made these pleas following a subpoena by the court for him to appear in Metuh’s corruption allegation case
Dasuki is challenging the June 16, 2016 decision of the Court of Appeal, Abuja that dismissed his appeal challenging his continued detention.
Adoke, who has been in Europe, stated his position in a statement he personally signed and made available to the media on Sunday
The book has been attacked by the Presidency over a claim in its foreword by detained Dasuki, where he said the Nigerian military intervention in the North East in 2015 enabled the last general elections to be conducted in the area
Dasuki, the NSA to former President Goodluck Jonathan, was arraigned on a 22-count charge bordering on diversion, conspiracy, bribery,
Bello Haliru and his son, Abba Mohammed, alongside their company, Bam Project and Properties Limited, are facing corruption charges for allegedly receiving N300 million from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki
Meanwhile, I have also realised that the only person that could be sure of not going to be detained either in cell, house-arrest or prison must surely be the dead person in the grave
Dasuki, who has been illegally detained after being granted multiple bails by courts, said the Federal Government in the quest to nail him has engaged in gross abuse of court and legal process by instituting various criminal charges against him on just one issue of the office of the National Security Adviser
Metuh, who made an oral application through his counsel, Onyeachi Ikpeazu (SAN), said he no longer has confidence in the court presided over by Abang
At the resumed hearing on Wednesday, counsel to Metuh, Emeka Etiaba (SAN), reminded the judge, Justice Okon Abang, of a pending subpoena before the court to invite Dasuki as the next witness
One of his proudest moments as a father was when he learnt while in detention that his children refused to beg General Abacha for his release. Upon his return, he met a household that was understandably apathetic towards the General. He reacted by lecturing us on the fruitlessness of hatred and requested that we pray for the repose of the General’s soul. Incidences like these defined my father