Sambo Dasuki, former national security
adviser, received an extra-budgetary
allocation of $2.1 billion from the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) within
nine months after approvals by former President
Goodluck Jonathan, TheCable can report.


Dasuki is currently being investigated by the
federal government over the billions of dollars
released for the procurement of arms for counter-
terrorism operations under Jonathan.
Documents seen by TheCable showed the
breakdown of NNPC’s disbursements to the office
of the NSA as follows: $1 billion on March 27,
2014; $200 million on April 9, 2014; $600 million
on May 5, 2014; and, same day, $200 million
following a request for $250 million.


The documents also showed that on January 12,
2015, he got $100 million, bringing the total
amount his office received from the NNPC to $2.1
billion within the nine months.
All these were outside the statutory budgetary
allocations to security during the same period, in
addition to another $1 billion loan secured by the
Jonathan administration to fight Boko Haram.
President Muhammadu Buhari recently ordered
the arrest of Dasuki for awarding “fictitious
contracts” in excess of N300 billion while he was
NSA.


It is believed that the arms and ammunition were
either not purchased at all or that substandard
ones were procured instead, reportedly leading to
the death of many Nigerian soldiers in the hands
of the better-equipped Boko Haram insurgents.
There were various media reports, both local and
foreign, quoting unnamed Nigerian soldiers
complaining about inadequate arms as well as
poor welfare in the counter-terrorism war.
Thousands of soldiers deserted the military and
those who refused to fight were court-martialed
and jailed or sentenced to death.


TheCable can report, however, that Jonathan
approved all the disbursements by NNPC, with his
senior special assistant on administrative matters,
Matt Aikhionbere, writing the covering letters
conveying presidential consent to the corporation
after the president had minuted on Dasuki’s
requests.


Jonathan further approved that the Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) should give Dasuki N40 billion
following another extra-budgetary request.
This was after the removal of Sanusi Lamido
Sanusi as the central bank governor in 2014.
Dasuki had written to the then acting governor,
Sarah Alade, requesting for N60 billion, but she
did not act on the request, reportedly because the
president was not copied and there was no
presidential approval.


Following the appointment of Godwin Emefiele as
governor in June 2014, Dasuki re-presented his
request but Emefiele too did not act on it because
of procedural concerns.


However, Dasuki sent another request, this time
copying Jonathan, who — TheCable understands
— now sat the two men together and instructed
that the bank should give N40 billion to Dasuki
and another N20 billion to the Department of
State Services (DSS), although there was no prior
request from the department.


It is believed in security circles that the N20
billion went to the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), the former president’s party, apparently to
finance the 2015 electioneering.
There was a slight twist in the story after the 2015
general election when a senator got wind of the
N60 billion expenditure and tried to blackmail
Emefiele, demanding N5 billion in order to keep it
away from public scrutiny.


Emefiele reportedly resisted the pressure from the
senator, insisting that he acted based on a
presidential order.
The senator is now a principal officer of the
national assembly against the wishes of Buhari,
who was made aware of the blackmail in May
before he was sworn in as president.
TheCable could not confirm if Emefiele eventually
paid anything to the senator.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/11/30/former-national-security-adviser-dasuki-got-jonathan’s-approvals-collect-21bn-nnpc-9