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16 Important Things Nigerians Should Know About Dasuki by skak(m): 9:23pm On Dec 04, 2015
Sambo Dasuki is a retired Nigerian Army Colonel and former National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan. He was appointed NSA on June 22, 2012 following the removal of General Owoye Andrew Azazi.

The Office which he occupied “National Security
Adviser (NSA)” is the nations top security and intelligence position. This is the seat where the buck stops, as regards to all problems of terrorism and insecurity in the nation.

1. Dasuki was born on December 2, 1954 and the
first son of the deposed 18th Sultan of Sokoto
2. He entered the Nigerian Defence Academy in
1972 and was coursemate with officers such as
Colonel Kayode Are, General Owoye Andrew
Azazi, and Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye
3. Dasuki attended the Washington DC and
George Washington University, where he obtained
a BA in International Relations and MA in
Security Policy Studies respectively
4. He had his military training in several
institutions in Nigeria and abroad including the
Nigerian Army School of Artillery, Oklahoma,
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College,
Ft. Leavenworth Kensas
5. Sambo Dasuki (then a Major) participated in
the 1983 Nigerian coup d'état that installed
Major General Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria's
Head of State
6. He was also among those who arrested the
Nigerian head of state Muhammadu Buhari in
the1985 palace coup led by Major General
Ibrahim Babangida.
7. Following the coup, Dasuki was made Aide-
de-camp (ADC) to General Ibrahim Babangida.
8. Gen. Abacha dismissed Dasuki in 1993 over his
suspected closeness to former head of state,
Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.
9. Dasuki later fled to the United States in 1995
after he was accused by the Abacha regime of
being a party to a coup plot allegedly led by
retired Col. Lawan Gwadabe.
10. On Dasuki's return to Nigeria, then President
Olusegun Obasanjo appointed him as the
managing director of National Security and
Printing Company. It was believed that his
appointment was influenced by Gen. Babangida.
11. Dasuki was also a former managing director
of Nigerian Security Printing and Minting
Company Limited (NSPMC)
12. In June 2012 Sambo Dasuki was made the
NSA, after the now late NSA, Andrew Owoye
Azazi who died under suspicious circumstances
when his helicopter exploded in Bayelsa,
December 2012, was fired.
13. On assuming the office, Dasuki said, in his
words: “I was in Yobe and Borno States last
week and I have got the telephone numbers and
contacts of key Boko Haram members and I will
meet with them…”
14. In early 2015, while serving as national
security advisor, Dasuki informed the
Independent National Electoral Commission
"that operations against Boko Haram militants
meant the military "will be unable to provide
adequate security" for the upcoming 2015
Nigerian general election. The elections,
scheduled for 15 February 2015, were postponed
until March 28
15. Also in April 2015, he insisted that the
Nigerian military would ensure that Sambisa
Forest, the last fortress of Boko Haram, would
be liberated before the May 29 inauguration of
President Buhari's new government.
16. On December 1, 2015, Dasuki was arrested by
Nigeria's State Security Service (SSS) for
allegedly stealing $2bn and accused of
awarding phantom contracts to buy 12
helicopters, four fighter jets, and ammunition
meant for the Nigeria's military campaign
against Boko Haram Islamist militants
Re: 16 Important Things Nigerians Should Know About Dasuki by abdulhadi101(m): 9:35pm On Dec 04, 2015
Owk nau
Re: 16 Important Things Nigerians Should Know About Dasuki by Nobody: 9:36pm On Dec 04, 2015
And So?
Re: 16 Important Things Nigerians Should Know About Dasuki by Tundeiab(m): 9:39pm On Dec 04, 2015
Why should someone with this level of qualification be involved in this sort of mess?
Re: 16 Important Things Nigerians Should Know About Dasuki by bettercreature(m): 9:40pm On Dec 04, 2015
Number 17...Dasuki embezzled $2.1Billion security fund

Number 18...Dasuki is presently behind bar


Number 19...Dasuki is heading to Kirikiri maximum prison


Number 20...Dasuki will loose all his properties
Re: 16 Important Things Nigerians Should Know About Dasuki by Karlovich: 9:41pm On Dec 04, 2015
N.O.R.T.H
Re: 16 Important Things Nigerians Should Know About Dasuki by BrianRoss: 9:44pm On Dec 04, 2015
All dis accusation for only one person,

dis is too much greed

but Sambo Dasuki na bad guy o
Re: 16 Important Things Nigerians Should Know About Dasuki by EdCure: 9:47pm On Dec 04, 2015
bettercreature:
Number 17...Dasuki embezzled $2.1Billion security fund

Number 18...Dasuki is presently behind bar


Number 19...Dasuki is heading to Kirikiri maximum prison


Number 20...Dasuki will loose all his properties

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Re: 16 Important Things Nigerians Should Know About Dasuki by skak(m): 7:48am On Dec 05, 2015
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