We’ll meet in court, Dasuki tells FG

Former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) has said that he has nothing to hide concerning the procurement of arms for the military, and that he is ready to meet his accusers in court by making available documents that proof his innocence.
The former security chief in a statement issued Wednesday, said “In order not to endanger the nation’s security, there are many salient issues and contracts which I cannot put in public domain. I am ready for trial on all these allegations in order to prove to Nigerians that I did nothing untoward in office. We will certainly meet in court”.
President Muhammadu BUhari had ordered the arrest of Dasuki and others who had been allegedly indicted by an interim report of the panel set up on August 31 to probe arms procurement between 2007 and 2015, which allegedly indicted him and others.

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But Dasuki, said that “I have a lot to tell Nigerians but in the interim, they should not believe some of the allegations as the gospel truths. The good thing is that some of the key actors in the present administration were parts of the past process being viciously challenged.”
Meanwhile, operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) have stepped up the siege on the Dasuki’s Abuja house yesterday, with reinforcements, ostensibly to carry out the President’s order.
It was however not clear if Dasuki was in the expansive compound, sandwiched between the Akwa Ibom Governor’s Lodge and the home of late ex-Bayelsa governor, DSP Alamieyeseigha.

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