One of the people said to have benefited from the misappropriated $2.1b meant for the procurement of arms for the military, Mr Nduka Obaigbena, publisher of ThisDay Newspapers has denied illegally receiving money from former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki.
In a recent letter to Mr Ibrahim Magu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Obaigbena admitted receiving 550 million naira from the former NSA as compensation for damages to his Kaduna and Abuja offices which were attacked by Boko Haram suicide bombers on 26 April 2012.
Speaking on his company's losses in the suicide attacks, Obaigbena said ;
". . . our buildings (were) destroyed and we lost full colour Goss printing towers and three pre-press computer-to-plate and auxiliary equipment and other (in)valuable property valued at over N2.5 billion.
“This is aside from daily costs to pay third party printers of over N1 billion, having lost our printing facility to terrorists due to inadequate protection by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
“The bombing of ThisDay offices followed the Abuja United Nations Building bombing for which the Federal Government has so far spent N3 billion for reconstruction and much more earmarked for furnishing.
“I had to confront President Jonathan on the issue when I learnt of approvals for the reconstruction of the Abuja United Nations Building, since we were the second major organisation to be attacked by Boko Haram after the UN attack.
“He therefore directed me to meet the National Security Adviser who processed the payment in question.”
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