Dasukigate: EFCC arrests Buhari’s associate

Late Wednesday night, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) widened its reach in arresting suspects in the $2.1b arms deal with former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki at the centre of it.

The arrest of Brig. Gen. Jafaru Isa, an associate of President Muhammadu Buhari and former military governor of Kaduna State was the first of such of a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC)

Gen. Isa therefore becomes the first chieftain of the APC arrested by the EFCC since the beginning of the sweeping onslaught on persons involved in the alleged diversion of $2.1 billion meant for arms purchase by officials of the past administration of President Goodluck Jonathan administration.

The APC chieftain now a guest of the EFCC was the Military Administrator of Kaduna State from December 1993 to August 1996 during the military regime of Gen. Sani Abacha.

At a point, he was a very senior member of the CPC, Buhari’s party that later aligned with other opposition fronts to form the APC on whose platform he contested the gubernatorial election of Kano State.

Our sources also disclosed that Isa is a very close friend of Dasuki, the embattled former NSA.
It was from his residence in Asokoro, Abuja that EFCC operatives picked him up that night and took him away to their office.
Our sources stated that EFCC operatives invaded his residence around 9pm, and took him away a few minutes later.
Before his arrest, EFCC sources noted that Isa had been invited to appear before the commission on the same Wednesday he was arrested. But rather than comply with the invitation, he reportedly wrote the commission through his lawyer.
From EFCC facts after investigation, Isa allegedly received about N100m tagged questionable from Dasuki.
A postponement of the invitation he sought through the letter authored by his lawyer was not an acceptable offer to the EFCC, reason they later picked him up to answer to the allegations against him.
EFCC’s dissatisfaction with Isa’s stance and response, according to its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, led to his arrest to clarify the ‘questionable receipts’ from Dasuki. As he remains in EFCC detention, the commission noted that investigations into the allegations against him would continue.

Sun