ABUJA – Nigeria’s president 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 that never
were supplied, worth a total of $2 billion.
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 payback. 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.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/18/world/nigerian-ex-president-goodluck-jonathan-stole-2-billion-via-fake-arms-deals-current-president-says/#.VkwZbzNw0WQ

End time things

Humm abi them one learn hw to do am

Can't blame the Japan times for coming to that conclusion. They do not believe, that in a properly run country, a national security adviser can never be able to usurp the function of the defence ministry and commit such gargantuan amounts of financial fraud/gatft without being supported by his boss, the President

Can you imagine someone putting the lives of Nigerians at the risk of external invasion,I'm nt sure the NA can confront the military of Benin republic with the present state of ammunitions.
Yet he is somebody's HERO.
Third world war is looming,ordinary boko haram na threat.

lanrefront1:
Can't blame the Japan times for coming to that conclusion. They do not believe, that in a properly run country, a national security adviser can never be able to usurp the function of the defence ministry and commit such gargantuan amounts of financial fraud/gatft without being supported by his boss, the President

Totally on point!

I hope he and his boss, the ex-president are hung from their necks until they be dead.

thousands of Nigerian lives have been lost because of their greed. may they never see joy all the days of their lives. (that curse for them is on behalf of the Chibok girls who are still being raped daily as we speak).

Jonathan is a Terrorist

I really don't know how to react to this because I find it so hard to believe that the former President just looked the other way while all these massive sleaze went on....

Can this be a tip of the deep rot this past administration was in?

choi ching ny'ong'------------ i sabi speak Japan wella infact i understand their stupidity in a unique way

this are frustrated bastards bent in spoiling the image of this country

Everyone knows that prime minister Abe is a buttkisser and extension of Obama's ass.

this is junk jonarlism, if am Gej I will sue this Japan times,though not a fan of Gej, at no point did the government accused the former president. it's the NHS for lord's sakes.

--dp_-

vkeydon:
choi ching ny'ong'------------ i sabi speak Japan wella infact i understand their stupidity in a unique way

this are frustrated bastards bent in spoiling the image of this country

Japan is light years ahead of Nigeria in all ramifications. Why would they want to destroy your image? Are they your mates?

fucking Nigerians think Nigeria is a paradise..

Nigerians can so cook fake news.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Bring fuel first then we can about this corruption

I didn't see any where Japan is mentioned ooo

Soon the wailers association will come as rabid dogs to derail this thread with their saTANist ignorance....




Every body must account for his deeds

denedene:
Bring fuel first then we can about this corruption

This corruption, as you put it, is why there is no fuel.

sonOfLucifer:

Japan is light years ahead of Nigeria in all ramifications. Why would they want to destroy your image? Are they your mates?

fucking Nigerians think Nigeria is a paradise..

Allow the guy o!! He thinks they send us like that. I'm sure this story was just too incredible and scandalous to overlook. What's Japan's business with Nigeria's image

Opinedecandid:
Nigerians can so cook fake news.

fake news? Google is your friend..

ofala:
I really don't know how to react to this because I find it so hard to believe that the former President just looked the other way while all these massive sleaze went on....

Can this be a tip of the deep rot this past administration was in?

Do you really believe this ?

If there is an evidence then arrest him but if u can't arrest him base on no evidence then shut up until you die.

ofala:
I really don't know how to react to this because I find it so hard to believe that the former President just looked the other way while all these massive sleaze went on....

Can this be a tip of the deep rot this past administration was in?

What can we say? He actually doesn't believe in corruption. By the way, my PM doesn't work. Check my mail add on my profile.

2015 news.

ALLEGEDLY

Can any of you foolish people read our understand? They are reporting an ALLEGED crime not giving a verdict.

All these media trials with ALLEGED crime have failed btw.

Splashme:
Some Nigerians have fish brains.

The Japanese paper is only reporting what the current president Buhari said.

Besides, it even said "allegedly"

It is same media trial the Buhari govt is good at

you dont make sense...this report was from 2015.......even britain called us fantasticaly corrupt around that time....

jonathan can not become president again....

dayo23:
Jonathan is a Terrorist

Lanretoye:
Can you imagine someone putting the lives of Nigerians at the risk of external invasion,I'm nt sure the NA can confront the military of Benin republic with the present state of ammunitions.
Yet he is somebody's HERO.
Third world war is looming,ordinary boko haram na threat.

Why this people hate this ijaw man like this is beyond me....
Is he more corrupt than obasanjo or Buhari
Why are they taking it personal
Smh for afonjaz

Now u understand part of the reasons good luck Jonathan had to go