Dasuki Lands In Fresh Trouble

The trouble of the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) seems to have been redoubling as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has concluded arrangement to arraign him before an Abuja High Court on Monday, December 13, on fresh charges on alleged diversion of public funds.

The anti-graft agency had earlier seek the permission  of the court to compel Dasuki and eight others which include a former minister under the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan to enter their plea on Monday prior to the trial before Justice Hussein Baba Yusuf of the FCT High Court.

Others who are to be tried with the former NSA on alleged diversion of N10 billion fraud are former minister of finance, Bashir Yuguda and a former director of finance in the office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, Vanguard reports.

Also, former governor of Sokoto state, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, Sagir Attahiru and the company the EFCC has fingered as the conduit for money laundering for the office of the NSA before the 2015 general elections, Dahaltu investment Limited.

In the same vein, a former executive director of the Nigeria National Petroleum commission, Aminu Baba-Kusa and his companies, Acacia Holding Limited and Reliance Referal Hospital Limited.

Meanwhile Yuguda who allegedly named in the controversial arms deal, had disclosed to EFCC those he shared N600million with.

The former minister of state for finance said the beneficiaries were the six chairmen of the Contact and Mobilisation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2015 general elections.