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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday tendered more evidence in the trial of retired Col Sambo Dasuki and three others before an Abuja High Court.
Dasuki, a former National Security Adviser (NSA), is charged with an amended 32-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, dishonest release and receiving various sums of money to the tune of N33.2 billion.
He was accused of misappropriation of security funds in the accounts of the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), alongside a former General Manager with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Aminu Baba-Kusa.
The others are two firms: Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited.
The EFCC arraigned the four defendants afresh on March 25 in a case that began in 2015.
The anti-graft agency accused Dasuki, among others, of releasing the equivalent of N10 billion in foreign currencies from the NSA’s account.
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The account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the 2014 presidential primary election of the then ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Dasuki and his co-defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges, marked as FCT/HC/CR/43/2015.
At the resumed hearing of the case, PW1, Adariku Michael, a detective with EFCC, informed the court that the commission received an intelligence report on Sept. 21, 2015, bordering on abuse of office and money laundering.
He was taken in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN.
In other news, The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday alleged that the Governor Monday Okpebholo administration was dismantling all the development structures instituted by his predecessor, Godwin Obaseki, instead of improving on them.
Besides, the party said Obaseki is not on the run but is giving the incumbent governor, Okpebholo, to run his show.
Addressing a press conference in Benin City, the State Publicity Secretary of the party, Dan Osa-Ogbegie, said it was wrong for Okpebholo to abandon the existing security architecture, the education policies and others and that he should rather build on what he inherited.
According to him, “How many of us can travel to Abuja on the road? Very rare. But how many of us even have the funds to take a flight from here to Abuja? Not many of us.
“The security architecture that you met, why change it? Why discard it? You can improve on it, He came in and he is dismantling all the structures of his predecessor because they were a different political party.
