The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested Col. Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), after laying siege on his Abuja residence for three weeks.
Dasuki is currently being grilled at DSS headquarters in Abuja.
A source said that the retired colonel, who is alleged to have awarded fictitious contracts, followed the security agents voluntarily.
Prior to his arrest, a Federal High Court in Abuja granted him leave to travel abroad for medical treatment, but the state police refused lawlessly to comply with the order of the court.
Despite the subsisting order, the DSS asked the same court, presided over by Adeniyi Ademola, to revoke the bail it granted Dasuki on September 1 on grounds that the accused person was being investigated for corruption and other criminal matters.
Dasuki has denied the allegations of corruption against him, saying that former president Goodluck Jonathan approved all the contracts that awarded by the individual service chiefs and cleared by his office, but the former president, unconvincingly, denied giving the approvals.
He has also described his trial by the Federal Government as a “witch hunt”, maintaining that he is innocent of all the charges.
The hearing of the application on “bail revocation” is expected to come up on Thursday.
Dasuki had received an extra-budgetary allocation of $2.1 billion from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) within nine months.
His arrest came two weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the service to apprehend him and other persons indicted by the investigative committee set up to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the armed forces and defence sector from 2007 to date.
To date, no service chief has either been named yet and none has been arrested yet.
Since Monday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has also arrested former minister of state for Finance Bashir Yuguda, the sons of former Sokoto State Governor Attahiru Bafarawa and the incumbent Chairman of Board of Trustees (BOT) of opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Haliru Mohammed, among approximately 20 persons so far roped in by the anti-graft agency for involvement in the arms purchase scandal.
-TheCable
