The Immediate past National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki has said that in all his dealings in office, he followed the instructions and orders of President Goodluck Jonathan to whom he said, he was answerable.
Dasuki, who gave evidence today, Friday, at Federal High Court in Abuja, in the trial of former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisah Metuh on alleged N400 million corruption charges brought against by government, said he followed due processes in all transaction by his office.
He insisted that he did not commit any unlawful transaction with Metuh as NSA, adding that he would not be able to give evidence on documents that were not authenticated by his records.
He insisted that he needed to consult records to give meaningful and cogent evidence.
Led in evidence by Metuh’s lawyer, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, Dasuki said that he had never entered into any unlawful transaction with Ex-PDP spokesperson while he was in the office, adding that as the NSA, he was in charge of collating security issues and reporting to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as demanded by the law that established the Office of the Office of NSA.
Answering a question, Dasuki said that he had never been convicted by any court of law for whatever offence in his life, saying that the Muhammadu Buhari’s Federal Government had succeeded only in convicting him in the court of public opinion even when his own side of the story had not been heard as demanded by the Constitution of the Federal Republic Nigeria.
“I have being maligned and convicted in the court of public opinion by my traducers against the usual judicial process through court trials.”
Under cross examination by counsel to the Economic and Finacial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Sylvanus Tahir, Dasuki maintained that he carried out the functions of the NSA diligently to the satisfaction of the nation and the former President Jonathan who appointed him to the office.
He said that as the man in charge of national security, he was only answerable to the President of the Federal Republic Nigeria on matters bothering on security issues generally.
The trial was adjourned to December.[myad]
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