EFCC TENDERS MORE EVIDENCE IN N33.2BN FRAUD TRIAL OF EX-NSA SAMBO DASUKI

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday presented additional evidence in the ongoing trial of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), and three others before an Abuja High Court.

Dasuki, who served under former President Goodluck Jonathan, is facing an amended 32-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, money laundering, and misappropriation of N33.2 billion security funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).

Also standing trial alongside him are Aminu Baba-Kusa, a former General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and two companies — Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited.

The EFCC had re-arraigned the defendants on March 25, 2025, in a case that originated in 2015, accusing them of illegally releasing about N10 billion in foreign currencies from the NSA’s CBN account allegedly used for the 2014 presidential primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

During Friday’s proceedings, the prosecution’s first witness, Adariku Michael, a detective with the EFCC, told the court that the Commission acted on an intelligence report received on September 21, 2015, alleging abuse of office and large-scale money laundering within ONSA.

Led in evidence by prosecuting counsel Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), Michael said the special task force, headed by ACE Halimah Kazeem, investigated the movement of “huge sums of money” from ONSA accounts between October 2014 and April 2015 to various companies and individuals.

He added that the EFCC wrote to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) requesting transaction records from the NSA’s account, which revealed several questionable transfers. Correspondence and financial documents received from the CBN and other banks were tendered and admitted as exhibits.

Defence counsels A.A. Usman (for Dasuki), Solomon Umoh, SAN (for Baba-Kusa and Acacia Holdings), and A.O. Ayodele (for Reliance Referral Hospital) reserved their objections to the exhibits, agreeing to review the documents before the next hearing.

Presiding judge Justice Charles Agbaza adjourned the case to November 11, 2025, for the continuation of the trial.