Alleged N33.2b Arms Procurement Fraud: Witness Narrates Flow of Multi-millions from Dasuki’s ONSA Account for Private Use

Dasuki

By JUMOKE SANNI

The trial of a former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) continued on January 13, 2026 before Justice C.O. Agbaza of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court Maitama with the First Prosecution Witness PW1, Dr. Michael Adariku giving a breakdown of the movement of funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA to private beneficiaries.

Led in evidence by prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs SAN, the witness, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, disclosed that on April 17, 2015 the sum of N600,000,000 (Six Hundred Million Naira) was transferred from the account of ONSA, domiciled with Zenith Bank with account number 1014199287 to the UBA account of Acacia Holdings Limited. He stated that prior to the transfer, the balance in the Acacia account stood at N27, 094.49 (Twenty Seven Thousand, Ninety Four Naira and Forty-nine Kobo).

On April 23, 2015, he disclosed that a transfer of N60 million was made to Hidayatul Atfaaf Islamic Academy, a sum which the proprietor, Mohammed Bashir, upon interrogation by the EFCC confirmed and disclosed that it represented a part-payment for the purchase of 3.62 hectares of land, situated in Kyami District, opposite Centenary City, along Airport Road, Abuja, acquired by the second defendant, Aminu Baba Kusa, a former General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. The total cost of the land he said was N120 million.

On April 23, 2015, the witness testified that N25 million was transferred to Zavati BDC Ltd, owned by Abdulrahman Aliu in three tranches of N10 million each and N5million. According to the witness, following an EFCC interview with Aliu, it was discovered that the payment was a part payment for a property described as Hospitality Property Limited, valued at N40 million, with an outstanding balance of N15 million, which was paid through one Ibrahim Saleh Uba, identified as agent and business facilitator for the second defendant.

The witness also disclosed that on April 24, 2015, transfers totalling N124 million were made with no clear narration of their purposes.