The Department of State Services on Tuesday arrested former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) for interrogation over the $2b phoney arms deals. This is coming after a month-long siege to his Abuja home and a legal battle between him and the DSS..
Similarly, a former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa and the Chairman Emeritus of DAAR Communications Plc, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, were also taken in for questioning by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly receiving huge sums of money from the Office of the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki.
The Department of State Services is to hand Dasuki over to the EFCC..
Dokpesi was picked up for allegedly collecting N2.1billion from the Office of the NSA. Bafarawa allegedly got N100million cash.
The anti-graft agency has also launched a manhunt for a former National Chairman of PDP, Mohammed Bello Haliru, who is believed to one of the major beneficiaries from the arms deal.One of the suspects in the EFCC’s custody is said to have refunded N200million.
He also pleaded for bail to refund about N1billion credited to him as diverted funds.
Dasuki was arrested by a team of DSS operatives Dasuki from his Asokoro home in a pre-dawn raid.
He may be arraigned soon for breach of public trust and money laundering .
According to sources, Dokpesi and Bafawara were being grilled on how both men got a cumulative sum of N2.1 billion from the the Office of former NSA without any clearly stated reason. They are to explain what they got the huge sum of public funds for.
Dokpesi and Bafarawas were arreated at about midday on Tuesday.
It was further learnt that no fewer than 22 other suspects linked with receiving large sums of money from the Office of the National Security Adviser have been in custody.
The ex-NSA’s arrest came barely 14 hours after a former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda and 20 others were picked up by the EFCC.
There strong indications from the what some of the suspects admitted, that diverted the arms funds were used to fund the campaign of the PDP.
According to informed sources at the EFCC, one of the suspects has offered to refund N200 million out of the over N1 billion given to him for the campaign.
