Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

$2.1bn ONSA Fraud: Court Adjourns Dasuki, Others Trial to May 2

Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, has adjourned hearing in a case of criminal diversion of $2.1billion involving former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) to May 2, 2018. Dasuki is facing a 19-count charge of abuse of office and fraud alongside Attahiru Bafarawa, a former governor of Sokoto State; his son, Sagir Bafarawa; a former Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu; a former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda as well as Sagir’s firm, Dalhatu Investment. The…