Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

ONSA Scam: Dasuki Absent in Court, Trial Adjourns to March 22

Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, has adjourned further hearing in a 19-count charge of criminal diversion of $2.1billion involving former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and others, to March 22, 2018. Others are 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 defendants were alleged to ha…