JAFARU ISA RETURNS #100 MILLION OUT OF #170MILLION HE RECEIVED FROM FORMER NSA BOSS COL SAMBO DASUKI

A former military governor of Kaduna State and chieftain of the ruling
All Progressives Congress, Jafaru Isa, has refunded N100million of the
N170 million he allegedly received from embattled ex-NSA, Sambo
Dasuki.
Mr. Isa, a retired brigadier-general, was arrested on Wednesday by
operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, at his
Asokoro residence in Abuja.
Mr. Isa, a political associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, was
grilled for several hours in connection with about N170 million he
received from Mr. Dasuki.
A reliable source familiar with the matter told PREMIUM TIMES the
APC chieftain and member of the 19-man Buhari Transition
Committee was released after refunding N100million to the anti-graft
commission.
The source said Mr. Isa pledged to return the remaining N70million
soon.
“We let him go after returning the sum of N100million. We are
expecting him to return the rest soon,” the source said.
According to him, some of the suspected recipients of the slush funds
who claimed they had no idea the money sent to them was taken
from the public till were handed opportunities to return what they got
from the former NSA but refused.
“We offered them the chance of returning the money honorably but
they keep deploying tactics to avoid prosecution, while also going
away with the loot,” he said.
A close associate of Mr. Isa told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr. Dasuki
lodged over N100 million into Mr. Isa’s account in instalments to buy
a house, located on Mohammed Mohammed Avenue, Kano, for the
former NSA.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that deposits were in turn made by Mr. Isa
to the owner of the house, Ali Tukur, in two instalments.
However, the house purchase deal collapsed as a former Minister of
Finance, Yarima Ngama, reportedly offered to pay the sum of N150
million cash when Mr. Dasuki reneged on the payment agreement.
Those familiar with their relationship say Messrs. Isa and Dasuki have
been close friends since their cadet days at the Nigerian Defense
Academy (NDA) and had spent four years together while on military
training in the United States.
The Peoples Democratic Party had on Sunday protested the release of
Mr. Isa barely eight hours after his arrest while its own spokesperson,
Olisa Metuh, remained detained.
The PDP, in a statement signed by its National Legal Adviser, Victor
Kwon, said there could be no clearer indication that the APC-led
administration was on a manhunt against PDP leaders, and that it
had a personal grudge against Mr. Metuh, ostensibly for his stance as
opposition spokesperson, particularly his recent exchange with the
government and the APC over their dictatorial activities.
““The release of Jafaru Isa, a known associate of the President and
chieftain of the APC eight hours after his arrest while our spokesman
remains in detention even when the two are being investigated over
the same allegation clearly shows that the President Buhari-led APC
government is not fighting corruption but using the much hyped
crusade as a cover to persecute PDP leaders and decimate the
opposition, a project the EFCC has clearly yielded itself as a willing
tool,” the statement said.
source-sahara reporters