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Nigeria: Former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki accused of stealing billions in arms deals
The arrest order could pre-empt the court’s demand for the attorney general to appear before it next week to explain why its order is being flouted. Dasuki also is fighting a prosecution request for his trial to be held in secret, to protect witnesses.
State Security, formerly controlled by Dasuki, said he refused to answer the committee’s questions about the arms deals but Dasuki said he was never asked.
Dasuki, 60, had usurped the role of the Ministry of Defense in procuring weapons. He was called before a Senate committee last year to explain South Africa’s seizure of US$9.3 million in cash and a US$5.7 million bank transfer that South Africa blocked, saying it involved an illegal arms deal. Dasuki said the deals were legitimate.
A retired army lieutenant-colonel, Dasuki participated in every coup in Nigeria since the 1980s.
Source: Associated Press
