Alleged $2.1bn arms deal: 78 companies collected money from ex-NSA Dasuki without executing contacts – Witness
) in 2015 charged Mr Dasuki; former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda; a former Sokoto State governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, his son, Sagir and his company, Dalhatu Investment Limited with 25 counts bordering on criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of public funds to the tune N19.4 billion.
He stated further that the matter was assigned to a team, including himself, set up by EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu.He alleged that about N1.1 billion was paid into the account of Javvama Ada Global Investment Nigeria Limited. “Sagir Bafarawa told EFCC that the money he received from the Office of the National Security Adviser was for prayer.“Later he came with a booklet with a forwarding letter dated November 23, 2016 outlining how he expended the money.”
He alleged that Soba told EFCC that he got N85 million from Bafarawa to “help” nine of them who were members of the Kaduna State House of Assembly in the campaign for the 2015 election.
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