Former National Security Adviser (NSA), retired ‎Col. Sambo Dasuki this morning pleaded not guilty to a fresh 19-count criminal charge before an Abuja High Court .

‎Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Dasuki, former Director of Finance in the Office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, former Executive Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Commission (NNPC), ‎Aminu Baba-Kusa and two other companies.

The accused persons allegedly supervised the unlawful disbursement of billions of Naira from different bank accounts belonging to the office of the NSA.

‎The EFCC, among other things, alleged that the sum of N13.570 billion, being money for an “agreement”, between Dasuki and the ex-Director of Finance in the office of the NSA, Salisu, was looted from the national treasury.
Justice Hussein Baba Yusuf‎ adjourned till Tuesday to hear their separate applications for bail.