Operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) may have picked up former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki, TheRainbow has learnt.
Sources said that President Buhari had ordered an investigation into allegation of fraudulent activities of ex-NSA. It was learnt that the action of the security agents is connected to alleged fruad in Dasuki’s office while he served as the NSA to former president Goodluck Jonathan.
Our sources confirmed that the withdrawal of Dasuki’s security detail was meant to pave the way for his arrest.
As at the time of filing this report, sources say that soldiers attached to the residence of the former National Security Adviser had been withdrawn on the orders of the president.A top security officer later confirmed to Global Village Extra that Mr. Dasuki has been taken into custody for further interrogation.Personnel of the Department of State Security (DSS) last night laid siege to the private residence of the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, in the Asokoro district of Abuja and his family home in Sokoto. .
According to sources, the DSS personnel arrived at the Abuja residence of Dasuki in four Hilux vans, telling the soldiers on guard that they came to see the former NSA for undisclosed official reasons.
Other sources indicated that Dasuki’s secuirty details on the orders of the presidency preceded the operation in his different residences, both in Abuja and Sokoto.
The source confirmed that the operatives had successfully carried out a cordon-and-search operation in his father’s compound in Sokoto.
The source claimed that the former NSA refused to let them but they had to force their way through.
There was no official confirmation Thursday night but a source claimed that Dasuki had been arrested and whisked away.
