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IsraeliAIRFORCE:ngwakwe good morning. please answer my question. was Sambo Dasuki under house arrest or was there a search warrant to search his house? |
It's high time the federal ministry of education enforced schools to buy buses for conveying kids to school and back home. RIP to the dead |
Is someone in dire need of monetary protection from Dasuki? ![]() |
barcanista:you and who will address the propaganda? A nonentity like you who's so full of himself. lol |
Rilwayne001:you can say that again! |
On April 20, 1996, the eight-year reign of
the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim
Dasuki, suddenly came to an end. Without
smelling a rat, the Sultan responded to an
urgent invitation to see the state’s
military administrator, Colonel Yakubu
Mu’azu, in his office. As was the style of
first-class monarchs, the sultan
responded to the invitation by being
chauffeur-driven to the Sokoto
Government House in a long convoy and
with a retinue of palace officials. But
certain things happened at that moment
that shocked him. On getting to the state
house, the military administrator did not
come out to receive him as was the
practice. Then, he was also surprised at
the unusually high number of armed
military guards at the government house.
Also, as he made to enter the
administrator’s inner office, Dasuki’s
palace officials were denied entry with
him. Since that was not the practice, the
Sultan protested but he was curtly told
that the administrator wanted to meet
with him alone. At that stage, the
monarch began to sense trouble.
At the administrator’s office was also the
Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Tsav,
and the state director of the State
Security Service, SSS, Alhaji Aboki. To the
sultan’s amazement, the administrator
told him that he (the Sultan) had
committed unpardonable offences against
the people, Islam and the state. He added
that after due consultation with the
kingmakers, the sultan had been deposed
and banished from Sokoto. To the
monarch, it was like a bad dream as he
could not believe his ears. He began to
shiver while a letter of sack given to him
by the administrator fell off his clasped
hands. But Tsav, the commissioner of
police, picked it up and tucked it into his
hands. Dasuki at first was short of words
as he quivered in disbelief. But at a stage,
he found his voice and looked up straight
at the administrator, “Why would you
disgrace the Uthman Dan Fodio family like
this?” But Mu’azu, the military
administrator, having performed his brief,
simply walked out of his office. This was
during the rule of military Head of State,
General Sani Abacha.
Journey to exile
Immediately after the tension-soaked
session at the administrator’s office,
Tsav told Dasuki that he was under
arrest. While the royal father’s palace
officials and other aides were still waiting
for him in an inner room in the governor’s
office complex, the sultan had been
briskly herded out through another route
and driven straight to the Sokoto airport
by Tsav and his team. Dasuki requested
to be allowed to go to his palace to take
his drugs but the police personnel turned
down the request. He also asked for
where they were taking him but the police
officers replied, “We don’t know.” In the
real sense of it, they did not know as
they only got a clear instruction to drive
him down to the airport.
While on their way to the airport, there
was a signal that the place had been
taken over by intending pilgrims, which
could pose a challenge. This did not pose
much problem to the police anyway, as
they simply chased the intending pilgrims
away from the tarmac, before the arrival
of the deposed Sultan.
At the airport, a plane had been waiting to
take the sultan away. He, at this stage,
resisted the arrest, saying he would
rather die than enter the aircraft that was
to take him on the journey to exile. His
words: “This is a coup against the
sultanate and as a leader, I should die
fighting; I won’t enter any aircraft unless
you kill me.”
But the leader of the security team
detailed to take him in the flight quietly
replied, “We have no instruction to kill
anybody.” Again, when the sultan
reminded them of the need for him to
have with him his anti-hypertension
drugs, the security personnel promptly
assured him that they would buy them for
him when they reached their destination.
But where? Nobody was willing to say.
While the Sultan still stuck to his gun that
he would not enter the plane, he was
firmly reminded of the indignity in a
Sultan being dragged into the plane.
Again, they told him that they were going
on a long journey and that if he chose to
go by road, he was free, provided he
could endure the rigour.
At that stage, the Sultan agreed to enter
the plane. Inside the plane, reports said
he kept telling the security personnel that
“you know today but you don’t know
tomorrow.” He also blamed his plight on
his political enemies who were bent on
destroying the “Buhari royal family.”
The plane then landed at Yola, Adamawa
State and the deposed Sultan was driven
straight to one of the government guest
houses. Sources said throughout the
night, Dasuki was wide awake, and at
about 4 a. m. the following day, he was
taken out and driven to Jalingo in now
Jigawa State, where he began a new life in
exile.
Tightened security
In Sokoto, government promptly beefed
up security following the Sultan’s
removal, especially at the palace and at
the ex-Sultan’s private residence along
the University of Sokoto’s temporary site.
Also, Dasuki’s family members, upon
hearing of his dethronement, started
moving out of the palace despite
assurances from government officials that
they could remain in the palace for as
long as it would take them to get
comfortable accommodation. It would
seem that the state government had
anticipated wild protests or riots with the
level of tightened security following the
removal. But the opposite was the case
as most residents, though surprised,
simply went about their normal business.
Government justifies removal
Colonel Mu’azu invited the Sokoto
kingmakers to the government house
where he officially informed them that the
Sultan had been deposed and banished. He
asked them to set in motion the process
for the emergence of a new sultan. He
also told them the series of offences
committed by the dethroned monarch.
Also in a broadcast to the state, the
administrator pilloried Dasuki for how he
conducted his affairs as sultan. His words:
“The leadership role for which the state is
known in the arena of politics and religion
is fast slipping out of our grip as a result
of lack of honest and sincere leadership.”
He said since Dasuki became the sultan,
many things went wrong, “which are of
serious consequences.” He specifically
listed Dasuki’s offences to include
causing feud and enmity among the
people and among the ruling houses,
ignoring government directives and
suggestions made to him, using
government facilities and personnel
without seeking permission, and inviting
foreigners, especially diplomats, without
notifying the government of Sokoto State.
He further accused Dasuki of travelling
outside his domain without the approval
or notice of the government, and that he
spent money on capital projects
independent of government’s approval.
Such acts, Mu’azu said, easily ridiculed
both the palace and the government.
Furthermore, the military administrator
reeled out other offences of the deposed
Sultan to include acts that brought
negative consequences to the religion of
Islam. “He is self-centred…and unable to
account for all the donations and fund
given by individuals or organisations for
the construction of mosques and religious
activities.” According to him, the deposed
sultan is likely to appear before the failed
banks tribunal. “It is shameful to see a
Sultan in a witness box to answer some
charges. This ugly development is totally
unbecoming of either the Sultan or the
revered Sokoto caliphate,” he explained..... |
You can Imagine how Jonathan turned the military very useless all because of Dasuki's greed. Baba Buhari, please make sure Sambo Dasuki vomits the money he stole. he must not be allowed to go free. I just seem to wonder if the Dasuki's are born thieves? I remember vividly how Sambo's father,the former sultan of sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki was dethroned as the sultan for embezzlement of funds by Abacha in 1996 or so. It was very shameful to see a whole Sultan shamefully dethroned for corruption. |
After his meeting with the US Director of the CIA, the President will be host of a courtesy call from his colleagues of the Class of 1980 of the US Army War College arriving at the Nigerian Embassy for the Town Hall Meeting....and TANOIDS say my President Muhammadu Buhari no go school? God punish Devil!! God bless my darling president!! |
crystalzoe:That's how it's supposed to be! sacking corruption and appointing integrity! |
You can Imagine how Jonathan turned the military very useless all because of Dasuki's greed. Baba Buhari, please make sure Sambo Dasuki vomits the money he stole. he must not be allowed to go free. I just seem to wonder if the Dasuki's are born thieves? I remember vividly how Sambo's father,the former sultan of sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki was dethroned as the sultan for embezzlement of funds by Abacha in 1996 or so. It was very shameful to see a whole Sultan shamefully dethroned for corruption. |
IbnSultaan:which of his sisters? Sa'adatu Dasuki,a sister to Sambo Dasuki was my classmate in secondary school. it's been years i chatted with her anyway. I no longer have her contact. |
same as MTN. I have been browsing on opera mini for free o! |
atlwireles:the dullard from Daura is your president. who the fucck is your intelligent father? A nonentity! |
atlwireles:wireless wailing wailer TANoid,you shall wail till President Muhammadu Buhari finishes his tenure as President. |
atlwireles:You call it failure? Jonathan is the definition of Failure!! Ride on President Muhammadu Buhari!! I tanda for your back! |
MrPeterson:Jonathan,Okonjo Iweala and Dieziani Allison Madueke. |
babadem2much:Amen o! |
Mogidi:better! enjoy your weekend |
Mogidi:and you think i wasn't joking too despite the fact that "your father" isn't an insult? Dude,you have no case against me. |
Mogidi:I said "your father". how is that an insult? |
Wailing Wailer TANoids should get the drugs. They need it badly! |
Mogidi:and what did i say regarding your father? |
SenseiX:Go and direct your silly question to Jonathan and PDP!! |
Mogidi:Jonathan was a democratically elected president who ruled Nigeria like a military dictator! |
My President, My President!! ![]() Baba is not smiling at all! |
Olisa Metuh is a fuccking hypocrite! Where was he when Jonathan and PDP used DSS officials to surround Bola Tinubu's house and Government House in Owerri? Even Adam's Oshiomole wasn't spared of Jonathan's tyranny. All because they were APC members. Olisa Metuh should shut the fucck up and go get a tutorial from Lai Mohammed on how to play the opposition. Onye ara! |
1after:the protection seeker talks as if President Buhari is his age mate. I wish my President gives a fucck who he is! |
FastShipping:So sad! None of them even sympathized with the dead. smh |
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