ABUJA, NIGERIA
Nigeria's leader on Tuesday ordered the arrest of the former president's national security adviser for allegedly stealing more than $2 billion meant to purchase weapons for the military to fight Islamic militant Boko Haram rebels.

"Thousands of needless Nigerian deaths would have been avoided" if the money had been properly spent, Femi Adesina, an adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, said in a statement.

It accuses Sambo Dasuki, a key adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, of awarding "phantom contracts" to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets, and bombs and ammunition worth $2 billion that never were supplied.

Dasuki also got the Central Bank to transfer $142.6 million to a company with accounts in the United States, the United Kingdom and in West Africa for unknown purposes and without contracts, Adesina said.


Dasuki denied any wrongdoing in an interview Tuesday night with the PR Nigeria news agency, and said he was proud that in the final months under his watch Nigeria's military ousted Boko Haram from a self-declared Islamic caliphate set up after the rebels had taken control of a large swath of northeast Nigeria.

The offensive came as Jonathan faced elections. Last year, soldiers told the AP they were going into battle without food and armed with only 30 bullets each.

The State Security Service has kept Dasuki under house arrest for more than a week despite a Federal High Court order allowing him to travel abroad for medical care. The court had allowed Dasuki bail after he pleaded innocent to other charges of money-laundering, involving more than $423,000 found in cash, and illegal possession of arms seized at two of his homes.

The State Security Service, an agency formerly under Dasuki's control, said he refused to answer questions about arms deals — charges Dasuki denied Tuesday.


Social media buzzed with comments about revenge and pay-back. Dasuki is said to have arrested Buhari, a former military dictator who seized power from a democratically elected government, when he was ousted in a palace coup in 1985.

Tuesday's development follows an interim report by a presidential committee investigating arms procurement, part of the fight against Nigeria's endemic corruption that Buhari has waged since taking office in May after defeating Jonathan in elections.

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 $9.3 million in cash from a private Nigerian jet that landed in Johannesburg and a $5.7 million bank transfer that South Africa said involved an illegal arms deal. Dasuki said the deals were legitimate.

Dasuki, a retired army lieutenant-colonel, participated in every coup in Nigeria going back to the 1980s


Adesina says Buhari has also ordered the arrest of several others linked to the scandal.

PRYCE:


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PRYCE:
Is this dullard trying to fight corruption or get even?.... Completely throwing due process out the window, Blatant disregard for court orders and totally trampling on Mr Dasuki's fundamental rights in A DEMOCRATIC setting....

Make no mistake, I'm on Nobody's side here... If this guy's found guilty, I hope the courts fry his Arrse... BUT ONLY THE COURTS!

WE USHERED IN AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED IMPUNITY!

PRYCE:
Is this dullard trying to fight corruption or get even?.... Completely throwing due process out the window, Blatant disregard for court orders and totally trampling on Mr Dasuki's fundamental rights in A DEMOCRATIC setting....

Make no mistake, I'm on Nobody's side here... If this guy's found guilty, I hope the courts fry his Arrse... BUT ONLY THE COURTS!

WE USHERED IN AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED IMPUNITY!

FastShipping:


Like I told you yesterday, terrorists have no due process right. Dasuki is a terrorist with blood on his hands and blood in his mouth. He has rendered many families useless. Many children are fatherless or orphans because of this Dasuki (terrorist/financier). Dasuki deserves no right, whatsoever. Terrorirsts are held everywhere in the world without due process. That is not new my friend. When you try to give rights to terrorists, they use that opportunity to quickly kill and maim others.

Just take a chill pill and see how Dasuku and his fellow terrorist masterminds are put to shame when the truth finally hit them in the face.

Relax yourself. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Nigeria is back!

slimmy05:
You need a nap

modath:



Do you sincerely believe the highlighted ?,

We are talking NATIONAL SECURITY here...

But in the Nigerian modus operandi partisan politics will always trump that... SMH..

slimmy05:
You need a nap

FastShipping:
[s][/s]

Do you support terrorism?

slimmy05:
Hibernate

PRYCE:
He sure needs a nap!

In A democratic setting, Even Hitler would be handled under the rule of law!

PRYCE:
"National Security Cannot and will never supercede the Nigerian Constitution"

Especially the bill of rights section!

1. I bow to your superior knowledge...

2. National security is of no importance...

Make i gerrarhia now, thank you.. ....

FastShipping:


Tell that to terrorists being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

FastShipping:


Tell that to terrorists being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

modath:



Waoooooh, this is your submission!!!

I can't begin to argue with you, a no fit, na work wey i can't begin to take on & i can't attach links so 2 things;

1. I bow to your superior knowledge...

2. National security is of no importance...

Make i gerrarhia now, thank you.. ....

PRYCE:
Saying the Nigerian constitution is superior doesn't mean I said national security is "of no importance"... See? Your Reasoning sha...

Anyways, you can chicken out if you wish to... Can't stop you on that one!

Chicken out? , Quit playing, i choose not to engage in an exercise in futility, it is wisdom, what purpose will a back & forth , run around a circle argument serve

As per my reasoning, i know you want to use STRONGER words but holding back for a reason, Please feel free oo, nohin do you, it's allowed....

*mic drop*

modath:



Chicken out? , Quit playing, i choose not to engage in an exercise in futility, it is wisdom, what purpose will a back & forth , run around a circle argument serve

As per my reasoning, i know you want to use STRONGER words but holding back for a reason, Please feel free oo, nohin do you, it's allowed....

*mic drop*

PRYCE:
"National Security Cannot and will never supercede the Nigerian Constitution"

Especially not the bill of rights section!

I mean NATION SECURITY should not be invoked as a prerogative to trample on The Nigerian constitution!

tomakint:
Buhari better be right on this one, hence, his anti-corruption crusade will never be trusted but will be branded "witch-hunting against opposition".......when a man is said to steal $2billion in a Country where 80% of the population are struggling to eke a livelihood, then such a man deserves to be forgotten in prison or if need be, shot to death. Like I said earlier, this allegations against Dasuki better be true.

PRYCE:


Strong words bro but the courts should be the ones to doll out these sentences, judgements.

tomakint:

Clearly my sentiments bro......the Law Court shall be the decider......but with a dictator in place, I hope Dasuki will get a fair hearing!

PRYCE:
Is this dullard trying to fight corruption or get even?.... Completely throwing due process out the window, Blatantly disregarding court orders and totally trampling on Mr Dasuki's fundamental rights in A DEMOCRATIC setting....

Make no mistake, I'm on Nobody's side here... If this guy's found guilty, I hope the courts fry his Arrse... BUT ONLY THE COURTS!

WE USHERED IN AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED IMPUNITY!

How sure am I that the probe committee wasn't compromised, coerced into doctoring their report to serve Buhari's interests??

PRYCE:
Is this dullard trying to fight corruption or get even?.... Completely throwing due process out the window, Blatantly disregarding court orders and totally trampling on Mr Dasuki's fundamental rights in A DEMOCRATIC setting....

Make no mistake, I'm on Nobody's side here... If this guy's found guilty, I hope the courts fry his Arrse... BUT ONLY THE COURTS!

WE USHERED IN AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED IMPUNITY!

How sure am I that the probe committee wasn't compromised, coerced into doctoring their report to serve Buhari's interests??

PRYCE:
"National Security Cannot and will never supercede the Nigerian Constitution"

Especially not the bill of rights section!

I mean NATION SECURITY should not be invoked as a prerogative to trample on The Nigerian constitution!