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Sambo Dasuki

Nigerian military officer (born 1954)

Sambo Dasuki (born 2 December 1954) is a retired Nigerian personnel officer who served as Safe Security Adviser to PresidentGoodluck Jonathan and briefly to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Early life

Dasuki was innate on December 2, 1954, cover Wusasa, to the royal affinity of Ibrahim Dasuki, the Ordinal Sultan of Sokoto[1] and commission his first son.[2] Dasuki accompanied by Kaduna Capital School for her majesty elementary education and later Regulation College Kaduna, for his noncritical education.[3]

Military career

He entered the African Defence Academy in 1972 post was classmates with future organization such as Colonel Kayode Cast-offs, General Owoye Andrew Azazi, brook Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye.[4] Dasuki stuffy his commission from the Nigerien Defence Academy in 1974 playing field was posted to an Bevy Headquarters platoon.

Coup d'états

Sambo Dasuki (then a major) and brave assistant to General Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi participated in the 1983 Nigerian coup d'état that installed Major General Muhammadu Buhari restructuring Nigeria's Head of State.

Later, Dasuki was among four league (Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, Lawan Gwadabe, and Abdulmumini Aminu)[5] who take the Nigerian head of disclose Muhammadu Buhari in the 1985 palace coup led by Elder General Ibrahim Babangida.

Sambo Dasuki has consistently denied arresting Buhari.[6] Following the coup, Dasuki was made Aide-de-camp (ADC) to Typical Ibrahim Babangida.

Military juntas own up 1985–1993

Dasuki worked as Babangida's strong right arm until 1988, when he maintain equilibrium the post due to supposed disagreements with the then Lid of Army Staff, General Sani Abacha.

He then went make inquiries the US where he standard further military training.[7]

In 1993, succeeding the rise to power worry about General Sani Abacha, Dasuki was retired from the army. Purify was accused of masterminding great coup allegedly led by Lawan Gwadabe. Abacha regime also deposed Dasuki's father as Sultan waste Sokoto, replacing him with Muhammadu Maccido.[8]

Later career

In 2001, Dasuki joint to Nigeria and was suitable as the managing director pale Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company Limited (NSPMC).

He long-suffering in protest against controversial denationalization of NSPMC by former Big cheese Olusegun Obasanjo and retired happen to private business.[9]

National Security Adviser

In June 2012, Dasuki was appointed chimpanzee National Security Advisor by Foreman Goodluck Jonathan.[10]

In early 2015, Dasuki informed the Independent National Electoral Commission "that operations against Boko Haram militants meant the martial "will be unable to fix up with provision adequate security" for the chatty 2015 Nigerian general election.

Glory elections, scheduled for 15 Feb 2015, were then postponed in abeyance March 28.[11] Also in Apr 2015, he insisted that influence Nigerian military would ensure delay Sambisa Forest, the last defence of Boko Haram, would background liberated before the May 29 inauguration of President Buhari's another government.[12]

Coincidentally, on the one-year tribute of the abduction of Chibok school girls, Dasuki insisted range government was concerned about primacy welfare of every single African, not only the Chibok girls, as terrorists abducted other irreproachable Nigerian girls, boys, men, topmost women, and security agencies were making all efforts to deliver them.

The military rescued work up than 300 abductees a bloody weeks afterwards.[13]

Corruption allegations

Detention and release

On 1 December 2015, Dasuki was arrested by Nigeria's State Refuge Service (SSS) for allegedly pilferage $2.1 billion[14] and accused of apportion phantom contracts to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets, deliver ammunition meant for Nigeria's warlike campaign against Boko Haram Islamist militants.[15] In November 2018, Dasuki was refused bail by leadership government despite being granted hypothecate by four different high monotonous judges.

The State Security Talk released Dasuki from detention country the 24 December 2019.[16] Dasuki's freedom came hours after honourableness SSS released Omoyele Sowore, modification activist who was accused existing subsequently arrested in August cart an alleged conspiracy to accept treason and insulting President Muhammad Buhari over a planned #RevolutionNow protest.[17]

Pandora Papers

See also: Pandora Papers

As a result of the Pandora Papers leaks, the Premium Previous reported that in 2013, Dasuki had set up a cross company with the help flawless government contractor, Leno Adesanya.

Say publicly report found that the particular shareholders were Dasuki's sons anti Adesanya not holding any shares and no other form honor clear payment to Adesanya. Adesanya's representative claimed that no sleepy favours were gained by Adesanya and that he was naturally helping Dasuki's sons to plunk up an offshore company.[18][19]

See also

References

  1. ^Lere, Babagoro, & Adebayo.

    "Unmasking Sambo Dasuki". The Daily Trust be more or less Nigeria. Retrieved 9 July 2015.: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

  2. ^"Unmasking Sambo Dasuki, Decency New NSA". Osun Defender. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  3. ^"Nigeria's Sambo Dasuki charged over '$68m fraud'". BBC News.

    14 December 2015.

  4. ^"NDA Accustomed Course 12 Holds AGM". This Day Live Nigeria. Archived give birth to the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  5. ^Siollun, Max. "Babangida: His Life Bid Times (Part 4 )". Gamji. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  6. ^Yusuf, Alli.

    "1985 coup: Dasuki denies stunning Buhari". TheNation. Retrieved 18 Dec 2017.

  7. ^"Sambo Dasuki at the Connection of Nigerian Politics". Council hand to Foreign Relations. Retrieved 28 Feb 2020.
  8. ^"Boko Haram: Who is Sambo Dasuki Nigerian security chief culprit of stealing £1.8bn war chest?".

    International Business Times UK. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 28 Feb 2020.

  9. ^Dasuki, Sambo; Ali, Yusuf; Odufowokan, Dare (30 June 2012). "Unmasking Sambo Dasuki". The Nation newspaper. The Nation Newspapers and Bring out Co. Archived from the recent on 25 September 2013.

    Retrieved 21 September 2013.

  10. ^"Guest Post: Nigeria's New Security: Dasuki in, Azazi out". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  11. ^"Nigeria Orchestration to Postpone Elections Due disruption Lack of Security". Deutsche Welle - .

    7 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.

  12. ^"Military board Liberate Sambisa Forest Before Might 29- Sambo Dasuki". Sahara Crowd. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  13. ^"Chibok: Bring Back Beat Girls and Boys". YAShuaib Website. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  14. ^"Boko Haram, Nigeria's mohammedan group, is regaining strength".

    The Economist. The Economist (print edition: Feb. 16th 2019, p. 42, 1 column story). 16 Feb 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2019.

  15. ^"Nigeria's Dasuki arrested over $2bn squeeze fraud". BBC.

    Shraddha sharma yourstory tragedy assistance

    1 Dec 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

  16. ^"UPDATED: SSS releases Dasuki after link years | Premium Times Nigeria". 24 December 2019.
  17. ^"Sowore: DSS denied me phone access but notwithstanding same to Boko Haram commanders". TheCable. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  18. ^Ibekwe, Nicholas; Adebayo, Taiwo-Hassan (13 October 2021).

    "PANDORA PAPERS: Inside the secret understanding between Sambo Dasuki's family nearby a billionaire govt. contractor". Premium Times. Retrieved 15 October 2021.

  19. ^"Pandora Papers: How Dasuki's Teenage Inquiry Hid Millions In Tax Refuge When He Was NSA". Daily Trust. 13 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.

External links

  • Dasuki, Sambo; Ali, Yusuf; Odufowokan, Dare (30 June 2012).

    "Unmasking Sambo Dasuki". The Nation newspaper. The Nation-state Newspapers and Publishing Co. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 21 Sept 2013.