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The Senate Committee on Defence and Army has
invited the National Security Adviser and the
military top brass over the $9.3m cash seized by
the South African government.
Chairman of the committee, Senator George
Sekibo, said this in an interview with reporters in
Abuja, on Thursday.
Those invited include Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.);
Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshall Alex Badeh,
and Chief of Army Staff, Kenneth Minimah, over
the alleged $9.3m controversial arms procurement
deal.
Media reports from South Africa on Monday
indicated that authorities there arrested two
Nigerians and an Israeli with the undeclared
huge sum of cash, flown in a private jet from
Abuja.
Sekibo said the nation’s top military brass were
expected to appear before the Senate committee on
Tuesday next week to brief the lawmakers on the
true situation of things.
He said, “I have just called the Chief of Defence
Staff, National Security Adviser and Chief of
Army Staff. I don’t want to preempt issues
because we have not heard details about it, but
they will be here on Tuesday next week”.
While commenting on the just concluded
military court martial and the death sentence
passed on 12 soldiers, the senator said he was
not surprised by the outcome.
Sekibo said as soldiers, the convicts were fully
aware of the implication of mutiny, adding
that before the judgment was passed, the army
carried out its investigations before the
commencement of the trial.
He further explained that soldiers were trained to
kill, therefore killing was not a big deal to them.
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