By Our Correspondent
Following revelations of massive looting of security votes in the Office of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, (retd), prominent lawyers, retired army officer and civil society groups have said that culprits in the scam should be tried for genocide and crime against humanity.
This is coming on the heels of rebuttals by many prominent Nigerians who allegedly benefitted from the disbursement of the $2.1billion and over N600billion in local currency. Former President of the Senate, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, in his reaction, said that he does not deal in arms procurement and would not have collected money from the Federal Government to buy military weapons and equipment.
Senator Ayu has been reported to have collected the sum of N345million from the office of the former National Security Adviser (NSA). Similarly, former presidential spokesman, Dr. Doyin Okupe, who was mentioned by Ibrahim Wambai, the Principal Account Officer II in the former NSA’s office, as having received monthly allowance from him, said that he would not speak on the issue for now.
Ayu said in Abuja that any funds from the office of the NSA, remitted to Starbriid Limited, a company which he confirmed his interest in, were solely for the provision of consultancy services on security and electoral matters.
A report by one of the national newspapers indicated that one of the 19 charges brought against Dasuki by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were that he approved the transfer of “an aggregate sum of N345million, being part of the funds in the account of the ONSA with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the account of Starbriid Limited.”
Wambai has said in his statement.....
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