DSS arrests Dasuki after 3-week siege

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), after laying siege to his Abuja residence for three weeks.

Dasuki is currently being grilled at the DSS headquarters in Abuja.

A source told TheCable 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 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 the 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 were awarded by his office, but the former president denied giving such 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.

TheCable earlier reported how Dasuki 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.