As the wave of stern denials from prominent Nigerians who have been alleged to have partaken in the Dasuki arms laundering saga keep pouring in even as more lists of benefactors to that loot are still being anticipated, some Nigerians have been divided in their opinions over the whole issue.
ARMS PROBE—From right: Former National Security Adviser, NSA, to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd); former Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa; former Director of Finance, Office of the NSA, Mr. Salisu Shuaibu; former Director at Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Aminu Baba Kusa and former Minister of State for Finance, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda, after their arraignment at an Abuja High Court by the Economc and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday. Photo: Gbemiga Olamikan.
The embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), who has been accused of separate charges running as $2.1bn arms cash laundering, Illegal diversion of N32bn and diversion of N13.6bn and who has revealed that some prominent Nigerians shared in the loot is now facing a 47-count charges before three different courts and judges in Abuja.
Denials:
However, the Presidency has vindicated President Buhari from the list of benefactor to the arms loot, saying, “Our attention has been drawn to reports making the rounds, especially on internet-based media, that President Muhammadu Buhari received $300,000.00 and up to five armoured SUVs from the Office of the National Security Adviser in the aftermath of the attack on his convoy in Kaduna last year…we unequivocally deny that President Buhari received $300,000.00 or any monetary compensation whatsoever from the Jonathan Presidency or any of its officials, in the aftermath of that attack, or at any other time since then.”
Also, The former governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, has equally denied reports that a former Minister of State for Finance, Mr Bashir Yuguda, gave him N100 million out of the money collected from the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). “I reiterate for the purpose of emphasis, that I had no dealings with the former NSA, neither did I collect any money from Yuguda. I challenge anyone who has any contrary evidence to produce it,” charged Dr. Odili.
Also, National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, denied partaking in the loot even as he admitted Tuesday that he collected some money from former President Goodluck Jonathan to handle a job, just as he did not mention the nature of job that was given to him and how much was involved.
“In the course of my duties as the National Publicity Secretary of our party, the then leader of our party and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria invited me and directed that I carry out some assignment relating to my office and which he duly funded. It is important to note that the former President was fully satisfied with the way and manner I handled the assignment,” Said Metuh.
Therefore, below are some selected comments of Nigerians to the Dasuki arms fund laundering saga.
Dasuki, Plea bargain??
I thought he pleaded not guilty.
The only plea bargain that will work for me is
1. a refund of all our money.
2. The names of ALL those that partook of the sharing of the commonwealth.
2. A court martial to try Dasuki like he organized the trial and sentencing of innocent soldiers to cover up his crimes of not supplying weaponry.
4. A one way ticket to the front lines in Sambisa with an AK47 and munitions (I am not wicked like him and want to give him a fighting chance at survival).
prosper5 •
The end justify the means. If at the end Dasuki and Co did not go to jail, I will know Buhari is not serious. No plea bargain.
Dr Philo •
There’s no way Jonathan was not aware of all these; N2.1bn for media, other billions given to presidential primaries’ delegates.. another set of funds for presidential campaigns, etc. Are they scared of asking him questions?
THE “ADMISSION” ONLY INSPIRES GIGGLES OF AMUSEMENT
It is a fact of nature: whenever it threatens to rain, thunder goes into spontaneous overdrive, summoning humanity to torrential downpours. We are seeing a fitting human analogy. Sambo Dasuki, today’s favorite villain and Mohammadu Buhari’s current preoccupation, threatens to sing a song of stunning revelations, and even his persecutors are collapsing into disorienting panic and “admitting” their own complicity in the docudrama of sleaze and robbing the public to pay the pigs.
Clearly destabilized by Dasuki’s threat, the presidency is coming out, in shivering haste, to “admit” that Buhari, far from being the squeaky clean embodiment he supposedly represents, took some of what Dasuki allegedly stole from the public. Unsurprisingly, however, Buhari’s minions are justifying his guilt by resorting to ludicrous legalism, thereby unilaterally legitimizing, hence distinguishing it from acts of......
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