Revelations On Looting: You Can’t Punish Sambo Dasuki & And Leave Jonathan

President Muhammadu Buhari has
vowed to recoup the “mind-boggling”
sums of public fund stolen under the
previous administrations to fulfill his
campaign pledge to Nigerians that he
would end graft.
Now the government has revealed
that just 55 people stole more than
N1.3trillion between 2006 and 2013,
thus leaving Nigeria in the lurch as
the economy is struggling to survive.
But it is former national security
advisor Sambo Dasuki who has
become the key figure in the anti-
corruption campaign. The former
Army Colonel is accused of looting
billions of dollars that were aimed at
buying weapons and equipment for
troops fighting Boko Haram Islamists.
Billions are alleged to have been
diverted instead to members of
Goodluck Jonathan’s PDP to fund his
failed re-election campaign.
Dasuki was granted bail last month
but has been kept in custody without
access to his legal counsel as he
awaits the start of three trials, his
lawyer Joseph Daudu told a court in
Abuja on Wednesday.
Dauda later claimed Buhari was
reverting to his old autocratic habits
from his days as military ruler.
“He (Buhari) emphasised he was a
changed man, open to democratic
principals. But interfering with the
court system, trying to find your
own rule of law, is not good,” he
told AFP at his office.
“It makes the outcome suspect.”
But prosecutor Oladipo Okpeseyi
denied any impropriety. “The federal
government has obeyed every order
made in respect of this case. We are
not acting illegally in any way
whatsoever.”
Buhari’s own comments about Dasuki
and two other cases involving the
pro-Biafra activist Nnamdi Kanu and
the Shiite Muslim leader Ibrahim
Zakzaky are very instructive.
He told reporters in December the
men should be kept in custody
because they had committed
“atrocities” against the the people of
Nigeria, and told the Judges to put
Nigeria above individuals.
Buhari was voted into power in 2015
after vowing to stamp out corruption
and usher in a new era.
And with the prosecution of Dasuki —
a powerful member of Jonathan’s
administration — the former head of
state could yet be dragged into the
case.
“The national security advisor will
normally carry out the instructions
of his president,” one of the lawyers
representing Dasuki in court,
Ahmed Raji, told AFP.
“You cannot talk about this matter
without talking about President
Jonathan.”
36gist.blogspot.nl gathered that the
Presidency has confirmed that if
Jonathan is found to have been
directly involved in sharing of
Nigeria’s money reckless, he wont be
spared, no one would be spared.