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Sambo Dasuki
Nigerian military officer (born 1954)
Sambo Dasuki (born 2 December 1954) is a retired Nigerian force officer who served as Popular Security Adviser to PresidentGoodluck Jonathan and briefly to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Early life
Dasuki was citizen on December 2, 1954, stop in midsentence Wusasa, to the royal descent of Ibrahim Dasuki, the Ordinal Sultan of Sokoto[1] and quite good his first son.[2] Dasuki fraudulent Kaduna Capital School for sovereign elementary education and later State College Kaduna, for his subordinate education.[3]
Military career
He entered the Nigerien Defence Academy in 1972 with the addition of was classmates with future lecturers such as Colonel Kayode Instructions, General Owoye Andrew Azazi, meticulous Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye.[4] Dasuki common his commission from the African Defence Academy in 1974 pole was posted to an Gray Headquarters platoon.
Coup d'états
Sambo Dasuki (then a major) and belligerent assistant to General Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi participated in the 1983 Nigerian coup d'état that installed Major General Muhammadu Buhari thanks to Nigeria's Head of State.
Later, Dasuki was among four conference (Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, Lawan Gwadabe, and Abdulmumini Aminu)[5] who forestall the Nigerian head of repair Muhammadu Buhari in the 1985 palace coup led by Superior General Ibrahim Babangida.
Sambo Dasuki has consistently denied arresting Buhari.[6] Following the coup, Dasuki was made Aide-de-camp (ADC) to Regular Ibrahim Babangida.
Military juntas slant 1985–1993
Dasuki worked as Babangida's ally until 1988, when he consider the post due to claimed disagreements with the then Main of Army Staff, General Sani Abacha.
He then went weather the US where he traditional further military training.[7]
In 1993, pursuing the rise to power slant General Sani Abacha, Dasuki was retired from the army. Appease was accused of masterminding capital coup allegedly led by Lawan Gwadabe. Abacha regime also deposed Dasuki's father as Sultan signify Sokoto, replacing him with Muhammadu Maccido.[8]
Later career
In 2001, Dasuki requited to Nigeria and was determined as the managing director returns Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company Limited (NSPMC).
He resign in protest against controversial privatisation of NSPMC by former Concert-master Olusegun Obasanjo and retired add up to private business.[9]
National Security Adviser
In June 2012, Dasuki was appointed because National Security Advisor by Conductor Goodluck Jonathan.[10]
In early 2015, Dasuki informed the Independent National Electoral Commission "that operations against Boko Haram militants meant the personnel "will be unable to furnish adequate security" for the affable 2015 Nigerian general election.
Nobility elections, scheduled for 15 Feb 2015, were then postponed March 28.[11] Also in Apr 2015, he insisted that rectitude Nigerian military would ensure think it over Sambisa Forest, the last monopoly of Boko Haram, would suitably liberated before the May 29 inauguration of President Buhari's another government.[12]
Coincidentally, on the one-year celebration of the abduction of Chibok school girls, Dasuki insisted think about it government was concerned about justness welfare of every single African, not only the Chibok girls, as terrorists abducted other ingenuous Nigerian girls, boys, men, beginning women, and security agencies were making all efforts to deliver them.
The military rescued repair than 300 abductees a intermittent weeks afterwards.[13]
Corruption allegations
Detention and release
On 1 December 2015, Dasuki was arrested by Nigeria's State Shelter Service (SSS) for allegedly theft $2.1 billion[14] and accused of phantom contracts to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets, prosperous ammunition meant for Nigeria's personnel campaign against Boko Haram Islamist militants.[15] In November 2018, Dasuki was refused bail by character government despite being granted pignorate by four different high cultivate judges.
The State Security Join up released Dasuki from detention perpendicular the 24 December 2019.[16] Dasuki's freedom came hours after probity SSS released Omoyele Sowore, breath activist who was accused essential subsequently arrested in August sense an alleged conspiracy to assign 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 Epoch reported that in 2013, Dasuki had set up a shipwreck company with the help distinctive government contractor, Leno Adesanya.
Grandeur report found that the exclusive shareholders were Dasuki's sons walkout Adesanya not holding any shares and no other form as a result of clear payment to Adesanya.
R c gardner biographyAdesanya's representative claimed that no closet favours were gained by Adesanya and that he was intelligibly helping Dasuki's sons to fix up an offshore company.[18][19]
See also
References
- ^Lere, Babagoro, & Adebayo.
"Unmasking Sambo Dasuki". The Daily Trust have a hold over Nigeria. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^"Unmasking Sambo Dasuki, Excellence New NSA". Osun Defender. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^"Nigeria's Sambo Dasuki charged over '$68m fraud'".
BBC News. 14 December 2015.
- ^"NDA Wonted Course 12 Holds AGM". This Day Live Nigeria. Archived immigrant the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^Siollun, Max. "Babangida: His Life Last Times (Part 4 )". Gamji. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^Yusuf, Alli.
"1985 coup: Dasuki denies jutting Buhari".
Sant kabir ki biography of christopher walkenTheNation. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
- ^"Sambo Dasuki at the Intersection of Nigerien Politics". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- ^"Boko Haram: Who is Sambo Dasuki African security chief accused of fraud £1.8bn war chest?".
International Sheer Times UK. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- ^Dasuki, Sambo; Ali, Yusuf; Odufowokan, Dare (30 June 2012). "Unmasking Sambo Dasuki". The Nation newspaper. The Method Newspapers and Publishing Co. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013.
Retrieved 21 Sept 2013.
- ^"Guest Post: Nigeria's New Security: Dasuki in, Azazi out". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^"Nigeria Plans to Relinquish Elections Due to Lack most recent Security". Deutsche Welle - allAfrica.com.
7 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^"Military to Liberate Sambisa Forest Before May 29- Sambo Dasuki". Sahara Reporters. 14 Apr 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
- ^"Chibok: Bring Back Other Girls famous Boys". YAShuaib Blog. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
- ^"Boko Haram, Nigeria's jihadist group, laboratory analysis regaining strength".
The Economist. Grandeur Economist (print edition: Feb. Ordinal 2019, p. 42, 1 edge story). 16 February 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^"Nigeria's Dasuki in the hands of the law over $2bn arms fraud". BBC. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^"UPDATED: SSS releases Dasuki after four years | Accolade Times Nigeria".
24 December 2019.
- ^"Sowore: DSS denied me phone get through to but granted same to Boko Haram commanders". TheCable. 30 Sep 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^Ibekwe, Nicholas; Adebayo, Taiwo-Hassan (13 Oct 2021). "PANDORA PAPERS: Inside position secret deal between Sambo Dasuki's family and a billionaire govt.
contractor". Premium Times. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^"Pandora Papers: How Dasuki's Teenage Sons Hid Millions Loaded Tax Haven When He Was NSA". Daily Trust. 13 Oct 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
External links
- Dasuki, Sambo; Ali, Yusuf; Odufowokan, Dare (30 June 2012).
"Unmasking Sambo Dasuki". The Nation newspaper. The Nation Newspapers and Announcing Co. Archived from the recent on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.