BETWEEN BUHARI AND SAMBO DASUKI. (embattled NSA to Goodluck Jonathan, being accused of 'plenty' by Muhammadu Buhari).

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Around this period in 1985, Nigerians were in Sallah festival and enjoying the public holiday, a soldier named Major-General Badamasi Babangida (a.k.a IBB) was executing his plans of overthrowing the Nigerian Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari.

One of the soldiers who arrested Buhari at gunpoint was a soldier named Major SAMBO DASUKI!

After the coup, Sambo was rewarded, and he became the ADC to Babangida, while his rich father, who was a banker and a mutual friend of Babangida and Abiola, was crookedly made the Sultan of Sokoto by Babangida, and that didn't go down well with the other leaders of the northern caliphate.

Meanwhile Buhari was arrested and his government toppled, IBB threw him into prison. Sambo Dasuki was one of the four Nigerian army Majors that arrested Buhari at gunpoint that day.

Buhari was left to rot in jail for two years and this wrecked his family life so bad that it led to a divorce with Safinatu, his beloved wife upon his release. While Buhari was also in jail, Babangida sent soldiers to ransack and vandalize his residence.

Let me skip what happened to Sambo Dasuki and his father the former Sultan of Sokoto under General Abacha.

Suffice to say that on April 20, 1996, the eight-year reign of then Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, suddenly came to an end. Without smelling a rat, the Sultan responded to an urgent invitation to see the state’s military administrator, Colonel Yakubu Mu’azu, in his office.

On getting to the state house, the military administrator did not come out to receive him as was the practice.

At the administrator’s office was also the Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Tsav, and the state director of the State Security Service, SSS, Alhaji Aboki. To the sultan’s amazement, the administrator told him that he (the Sultan) had committed unpardonable offences against the people, Islam and the state. He added that after due consultation with the kingmakers, the sultan had been deposed and banished from Sokoto.

To the monarch, it was like a bad dream as he could not believe his ears. He began to shiver while a letter of sack given to him by the administrator fell off his clasped hands. But Tsav, the commissioner of police, picked it up and tucked it into his hands. Dasuki at first was short of words as he quivered in disbelief. But at a stage, he found his voice and looked up straight at the administrator, “Why would you disgrace the Uthman Dan Fodio family like this?”

But Mu’azu, the military administrator, having performed his brief, simply walked out of his office. This was during the rule of military Head of State, General Sani Abacha.

Thus Abacha dethroned Sambo's father as the Sultan but rehabilitated Buhari and appointed him the Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, chairman that controlled billions of dollars PTF fund.

Buhari and Abacha's relationship went a long way; Muhammadu Buhari then a Major General (General Officer Commanding, 3rd Armored Division, Jos) and Sani Abacha then Brigadier (Commander, 9th Mechanized Brigade) were major participants in the Nigerian military coup of December 31, 1983 that led to the ouster of the democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari, and the installation of Major General Muhammadu Buhari as Head of State.

[To those in the Know, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, a strong ally of the Sokoto caliphate headed by the Dasuki's was a supporter of the Goodluck Jonathan administration.]

In June 2008, Muhammadu Buhari, spoke at the 10th anniversary prayer session for Abacha death held in Kano. General Buhari said: "All the allegations levelled against the personality of the late Gen. Sani Abacha will remain allegations. It is 10 years now, things should be over by now. Ten years after Abacha, those allegations remain unproven because of lack of facts”.

Dasuki was appointed the National Security Adviser to President Jonathan, and you think he wants Buhari to be president? The same Dasuki wrote letter to INEC claiming Nigerian security can't provide security for the 14/02/15 presidential election which was postponed to March 28, citing boko haram as excuse.

Unfortunately for Sambo Dasuki, the elections went on, after the postponement, and Buhari won. Sambo was forced to continue working, for about two months, as the National Security Adviser to President Buhari.

Knowing the his days in that office are numbered he tendered his resignation letter but, according to a report in elombah.com: The resignation letter of the National Security Adviser, Colonel Sabo Dasuki, has been rejected by President Muhammadu Buhari, on the ground that he must account for funds received and spent under his tenure in the prosecution of the Boko Haram insurgency.

The Director for Special Duties in Dasuki's NSA office, Colonel Bello Fadile, a former military officer and lawyer was the PDP agent during the elections. According to the PUNCH newspaper, Bello Fadile, reportedly stated that the party would challenge the presidential election results at the election tribunal.

According to Punch, when the final results were declared, announcing Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s new president at the National Collation Centre in Abuja , Fadile refused to sign the result sheet.

“Whether I sign it (the result sheet) or I don’t sign it, does not make any difference. It doesn’t invalidate the result. When we go to court, then we can challenge the result,” Fadile said.

Now the man is President and as current Kaduna State Governor, El rufai reminded us: Any wrong committed against a Fulani is a debt that must be repaid someday, no matter how long it takes.

For Dasuki; this is payback time!

Read Dasuki's lamentation below. Like Buhari, Dasuki is a Fulani, and therefore should not be surprised by his currrent ordeal in the hands of the current president:

My 24-hour SSS ordeal, by Sambo Dasuki - THE NATION

(Passport, $40,000, nine cars, three rifles seized)

Former NSA alleges plot to implicate him

The former National Security Adviser, Mr. Sambo Dasuki, yesterday raised the alarm over what he saw as plot by the State Security Service (SSS) to implicate him in alleged security breaches.

He said Nigerians should know that the invasion of his house by the SSS was a sheer witch-hunt. He said it was sad that the operatives of the security agency broke into his ailing father’s house in Sokoto and broke his safe.

Dasuki, who spoke exclusively with our correspondent on the phone yesterday, said he does not deserve such treatment because as the National Security Adviser he did not maltreat any Nigerian.

He said he was subjected to a 12-hour ordeal from 6pm on Thursday till 6am on Friday.

“The SSS operatives came in two trucks with a search warrant from a Magistrate Court. The warrant gave them the power to search for ‘illegal weapons and any incriminating item.’ You can imagine what that is supposed to mean.

“I left office on Tuesday and they got the warrant on Wednesday and executed it by 6pm on Thursday.

“From 6pm on Thursday, throughout the night till about 6am this morning (Friday), they were searching my house looking for incriminating items.

“They restricted my movement. I cannot go out and no one can visit me. All those who attempted to see me were stopped from doing so.

“In fact, my son was blocked from entering my residence. My two cooks, who used to come from their homes to prepare my meals, were also disallowed from leaving my house.

“The only person allowed was the man who feeds my dogs. And he only related with the dogs.

“By Friday morning, they packed away all the nine cars in my residence. I could not go out to perform the Eid-el-Fitr prayer because of the restriction.

Even when I sought permission to go to Eid Praying Ground, they promised to provide a vehicle but they never did.”

Responding to a question, Dasuki said: “This is just a witch-hunt; they are desperately looking for something to implicate me.

“They went to my father’s house including breaking into the ceiling to look for incriminating documents. They broke a safe in my father’s house.

“Also, my sister kept a 20-year old box in my father’s house, they also forced it open. What has my father got to do with this?

“And the old man is in hospital in London. He was shocked to hear that they broke into his house. The good thing is that they did not find anything.

“They brought the photocopy of a 2007 draft by my brother, Ahmed, and asked me to comment on it. Was I in office in 2007 as NSA? You can see the extent to which they are ready to go to implicate me,” he said.

The State Security operatives yesterday also seized his international passport and $40,000 cash found in his house.

They retrieved three rifles which were being used by members of the protective team while in office.

The disengagement of the Protective team was yet to be completed yesterday but the SSS asked him to explain how he came about the rifles.

At about 6 pm yesterday. the SSS operatives were withdrawn from his residence.

Dasuki’s movement remains however restricted to the country as his traveling documents are now with the SSS.

According to findings, the SSS team obtained statement from him from about 5pm till some minutes to 6pm.

A source said: “They seized the ex-NSA passport and raised issues on how he came about the $40,000 in his house. They went to the extent of asking him to give the details of how he came about the cash.

“On the rifles, they repeatedly questioned him on what he was doing with them. He took time to explain that they belong to members of the Protective Team guarding him. They became excited as if they had found an evidence against him.

“I think by the time the case gets to a court, Nigerians will know the truth or otherwise of their findings.

On the allegations against him, especially the ones bordering on purchase of arms, funds for counter-insurgency and the seized $15million in South Africa , Dasuki said: “I read some of these allegations in The Nation but nobody has asked me some of these things they are saying. I was not even in charge of some of these things. How do I account for all?

“And if you want me to respond to these issues, you have to give me access to relevant documents. You do not need to restrict my movement. You can see that they are just out to set me up. Even if they find a knife in my house, they will say it is incriminating.”

“There are some who should account 10 times for some of these allegations they are raising but they are walking about freely, ” he added.

Dasuki, who sounded confident on the phone, said as a retired senior military officer and ex-NSA, he ought to be better treated.

“Everybody should know what is happening. They sent some low-level officers, looking for something to implicate me.

“It is just a witch-hunt. If you want me to make clarifications on any issue, in the spirit of democracy and the rule of Law, have the courtesy to invite me and as a gentleman, I will honour the invitation. Sending two trucks to lay siege on my house and restrict my movement is just abysmal.

“For a man who left office on Tuesday, where will I run to? I have nothing to fear.”

The former NSA said he was unfairly treated by the SSS because when he was in charge of the nation’s security, he was “cautious, careful and fair “in his approach.

He added: “I was fair to all as NSA. Even when I had security cause to act on some issues, inflammatory comments and actions against the government of the day by those in the opposition, I exercised restraint. I did not restrict anyone’s movement, I never asked security agents to occupy anybody’s house.

“But that is the new change we have, this is our own definition of democracy. All I know is that everything has a beginning and an end in a democracy. I gave my best for this transition, which led to the victory of the opposition over the ruling party"

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I belive its about both, More to with vendetta and very little about justice. President Buhari is a man who never forgives or forgets. It's really a pay back time no matter how many years in between.

Although there's been a lot of allegations surrounding Sambo. We can talk about the massive billion dollars corruption on defense contracts allegedly perpetuated by Sambo Dasuki under the guise of purchasing military equipment for the armed forces.

*** He allegedly purchased refurbished MI Helicopters as new for the Nigerian Airforce from Belarus at the cost of $84 million per one which the market value is $15 million two have already crashed and killed the pilots.

 

*** He also allegedly purchased a substandard UAV (Drones) from China at an exhorbitant price of $260 million as against a brand new UAV which was offered to Nigeria by Elbit Systems of Israel who are the pioneers and leading UAV Manufacturers in the world at a lower cost of $16.5 million per one and the Chinese UAV crashed on its maiden flight at Mafa village in Borno State.

 

*** Then the highly talk about of how he allegedly purchased and installed a Command and Control Centre in his office from an Israeli company called NICE at an exhorbitant price of $80 million which the market value is put at $15 million. His office is not an Operational Agency by law as it serves only as an advisory role to the Presidency on security and intelligence matters so he doesn't need a Command and Control Centre and since its installation it has never worked.

 

**** He also had done a deal with the Tchadian and Nigerien Governments to pay them cash to fight the Boko Haram on behalf of Nigeria which he collected huge amount of money and paid them peanuts.

*** Not to talk about The South African money for arms scandal...

What else do we expect from a man who's father looted millions dollars donation from Saudi means for establishing hospital schools orphanages etc...

Sambo Dakusi has been milking the nation from its marrow and it's high time he's brought to justice.. by either means necessary if the accusations were found to be true.