Top-ranking staff of the office of the national security adviser, who worked under Sambo Dasuki, have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Sahara Reporters informs that a highly placed security source confirmed the arrests.
The source added that the officials’ arraignment was linked to the current probe of a $2 billion arms contract scandal involving former NSA to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan.
Assistants of Dasuki who were arrested comprise Shuaibu Salisu, who was director of finance as well as a staff member of the National intelligence Agency (NIA), Aminu Baba Kusa, popularly called as “ABK,” a former general executive director at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and Kusa’s son, Mohammed Baba-Kusa.
Other ex-top staff of the NSA who are being arreste in connection with the weapons contract scandal are Abba M.T. Usman, Evegny Kundaev, Attahiru Maccido, Salisa Umar Garu, Oyinmiebl Bribena, Olukoya Olusegun Godwin, and Olukayode Raimi.
They are being probed on accusations reaching from criminal conspiracy, theft, forgery, the diversion of public funds, to money laundering.
The insider revealed that the arrested officials were being kept in separate cells, continuing that President Muhammadu Buhari was keenly following the developing probe.
The embattled ex-NSA has been under strong pressure from law enforcement authorities over his supposed role in organising the stealing of $2 billion meant for a massive weapons contract.
The supposedly stolen assets were intended to buy arms to fight the deadly Boko Haram sect.
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