Former National Security Adviser, SAMBO DASUKI, has denied implicating anyone in his statement with the Department of State Services over the ongoing arms procurement deals investigation.

Former National Security Adviser, SAMBO DASUKI, has denied implicating anyone in his statement with the Department of State Services over the ongoing arms procurement deals investigation. DASUKI made the clarification in view of speculations that have been trailing the arrest of Daar Communications Chairman, Chief RAYMOND DOKPESI and former governor of Sokoto State, ATTAHIRU BAFARAWA by the EFCC. The lawyer to the embattled former NSA, AHMED RAJI, told newsmen that he was with his client and he never made any implicating statement. DASUKI is alleged to have awarded fictitious arms contracts worth three hundred billion naira from an alleged two point one billion dollars extra-budgetary allocation from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
The Supreme Court will on the 5th of February next year deliver judgment in an appeal by Senate President BUKOLA SARAKI against the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The Chief Justice of Nigeria, MAHMUD MOHAMMED, who is presiding over a panel of seven Supreme Court Justice, announced the date after hearing the brief of counsel to the plaintiff and the respondent. Senator SARAKI’s lawyer, JOSEPH DAODU pegged his brief on three points, arguing that the Code of Conduct Tribunal was not properly constituted to handle the trial of the Senate President over alleged false declaration of assets. DAODU also said the CCT was just a disciplinary panel for public officers, and not a court of competent criminal jurisdiction. But counsel to the CCT, ROTIMI JACOBS wants the apex court to dismiss the appeal of the Senate President for lack of merit. He maintained that tribunal was properly constituted, as only two members were required to form a quorum to sit in judgment on a case.