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Sambo Dasuki
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The Department of State
Services (DSS) has launched a large-scale investigation into the financial
transactions of Sambo Dasuki, retired colonel and former national security adviser,
TheCable understands. This follows the
seizure of yet-to-be-disclosed “huge sums of cash” — said to be in
naira and dollars — from his Abuja and Sokoto residences on July 16. The federal government
is currently probing the expenditure of over N40 billion on “security
matters” in the last few months of President Goodluck Jonathan’s
administration. A highly placed
government official, who declined being identified, said sensitive documents,
including cheque stubs and bank transactions, were seized in the
court-authorised search of Dasuki’s houses.
TheCable report continues:
Officially, the DSS, also
known as the State Security Service (SSS), has not disclosed its findings but
only said its agents discovered “incriminating
evidence” against Sambo while executing
a search warrant.
The secret police also
said there were allegations of “treasonable felony” against Dasuki, denying
claims that its search was a witch hunt or politically motivated.
Only US$40,000 was
reported as recovered in the media — in addition to the 12 vehicles
and three rifles acknowledged by the DSS in its statement after the operations.
TheCable understands that
most of the documents were discovered in the cars that were towed away from his
main residence in Abuja.
The source did not give a
breakdown of the cash reportedly recovered but said the biggest find so
far is in the paper trail “which is yielding significant leads”.
Dasuki’s residences were
raided on the evening of July 16, but the DSS operatives met a stonewall at his
main house in Abuja which led to a 24-hour stand-off.
The former NSA has denied allegations of wrong-doing, maintaining
that his professionalism helped the All Progressives Congress (APC)
displace the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in the 2015 general
election.
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