Abuja (AFP) - Nigeria's former national security advisor remains in custody as he is under investigation for alleged offences committed decades ago when he was an army officer, a state prosecutor said Thursday.

Sambo Dasuki is already facing three trials with a slew of charges in connection with looting billions of dollars that were supposed to go towards fighting Boko Haram Islamists.

He is one of just 55 people the Nigerian government claims stole more than $6 billion between 2006 and 2013, leaving Africa's biggest economy reeling in the wake of the global oil price plunge.

But despite being granted bail in December, Dasuki has been kept in custody by Nigeria's intelligence agency, the Department of State Services (DSS), without access to his legal counsel.

Prosecutor Rotimi Jacobs told an Abuja court that Dasuki was rearrested because the government is investigating an "alleged breach of service law" when he was serving as a colonel in the army before his retirement in 1994.

Defence lawyer Joseph Daudu said Dasuki -- a powerful member of former president Goodluck Jonathan's administration -- is being denied the right to a fair trial and that all three cases against him should be dismissed.

"There's really no way he can get a fair trial in the circumstances," Daudu said to AFP, vowing if necessary to take the matter to the Supreme Court.

Dasuki is rumoured to have arrested Muhammadu Buhari at gunpoint when he was overthrown in a 1985 coup after serving nearly two years as head of a military government.

Daudu said that Dasuki will neither "confirm or deny" that rumour, but added there is "no love lost" between his client and Buhari, now Nigeria's elected president.

Political analyst Chris Ngwodo said that far from settling old grievances, the ultimate reason for Dasuki's continued incarceration is that the government is struggling to stitch together its case against him.

"What is the most important thing for them is for him to be in custody, they do not want to make him free," Ngwodo said.

"So they are resorting to somewhat underhanded tactics," Ngwodo said. "What they will keep doing is finding fresh ways of holding him in custody until they can fine tune their case."
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Don't know why dey haven't sentence him to prison

lol

And someone told me there is no vendetta in this Dasuki thing? Dasuki is paying for arresting Buhari. Buhari does not forgive..

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lalasticlala

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Vengance, that's what it all boils down to.
That's good, because it will also expose all the people involved in overthrowing Buhari at that time, and you know where this is going? IBB!

lol.... Dasuki again... well I m happy human beings no fit be God.... wickedness everywea...

Buhari will never change and he should be prepared for the consequences.



For every action there is a reaction.


IBB is still around

Buhari when you are going for vengeance dig two grave

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SHAME

agabaI23:
lol

And someone told me there is no vendetta in this Dasuki thing? Dasuki is paying for arresting Buhari. Buhari does not forgive..

guy pack well, coup or no coup dasukis crime can not b forgiven by d Nigerian citizen, a crime against humanity is equivalent to terror in wAtever form u apply it., Bt am nt sure if d minorities in d zoo will let go....

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Buhari will never change and he should be prepared for the consequences.



For every action there is a reaction.


IBB is still around

@EccoTerrors - I don't like you because you reason just like Lucy.

Oh! Lucy is my 8month old hen in ijebu.

Due to his lack of proper care and attention thousand of the citizens were liveless and uncountable are suffering from hardship homeless people and refuge camps attendance everywhere and some people are out in defence of this man, let him be jail forever after vomiting the nation wealth.

nicedas:
guy pack well, coup or no coup dasukis crime can not b forgiven by d Nigerian citizen, a crime against humanity is equivalent to terror in wAtever form u apply it., Bt am nt sure if d minorities in d zoo will let go....

Like you know I have problem packing my thing...

Dasuki is the only person that committed crime against humanity that his sins be traced back to 2 decades back while Obasanjo and many others walk around free.. You should park well joor...

Ride on Buhari, even if it means going back 40years to 1974. Nail any thief you can.

Cc lalasticlala, obinoscopy

Is Dasuki being held for chopping FG's money or was he arrested for taking Buhari at gun point? People don't understand that Dasuki is parternally crook, he and his father after removing Buhari in 84 then imposed Dasuki father as sultant of Sokoto against the will of the people.

chakula:
Due to his lack of proper care and attention thousand of the citizens were liveless and uncountable are suffering from hardship homeless people and refuge camps attendance everywhere and some people are out in defence of this man, let him be jail forever after vomiting the nation wealth.

where were you when your buhari was against military onslaught on boko haram. Is this one not enough crime to say he aided the spread of boko haram ? Bubu is an insurgent! He has no moral conviction to arrest anyone base on past military misdemeanor or whatsoever. He is part of the illiterate military embarrassment that brought us down this lane. I wonder why you folks forget easily or is it selective amnesia ?

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eleojo23:
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and you stop booking space !

For those of us that can think outside the box we know this ain't got anything to do with 1994 OP is trying to castigate Buhari by mentioning 1970+ rumor

They know themselves, all of them corrupt, prosecutor and the prosecuted. let them keep deceiving Nigerians.

They just want to cripple this man on every front

Lol, this Joseph Daudu needs to upgrade his strategies, it's getting outdated it failed saraki at the Supreme Court and it's gonna fail Dasuki also... All this his side ranting trying to draw sympathy/make the case look like vengeance will not work out.

They should release this man on bail and continue with the prosecution buhari is setting a bad precedent which may boomerang in future.

The saga continues

Lobatan

This Dasuki should just die and go or at least fake death like Alamesiegha did, then go to to Burkina Faso to continue his life jare.
Enough of Daduki this Dasuki that its getting boring.

Isn't what this man is facing now enough to keep him locked up for the rest of his life? Why the new charges? Do they want to pass some of his prison terms to other members of his family?

Baba go finish this guy.

Ok oooooooooooooooo