Former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and the State Security Service, SSS, have disagreed on the propriety of a fresh summon for his appearance before a probe committee. A court this week ordered that Dasuki be allowed three weeks medical travel after which his trial will continue, a development the SSS is uncomfortable with. Both Dasuki and the SSS gave different accounts of the current standoff to PREMIUM TIMES. Clarifying the news that it is laying a siege to Dasuki Abuja home, the SSS said it is seeking the former NSA for a different matter other than the one the court ruled on. The fresh matter, it says, is the probe of arms procurement as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari and being handled by a committee set up by the NSA office. “What has however brought the seeming standoff between SAMBO and the Service, despite the court-ordered release of his international passport on 4th November, 2015, is his refusal to appear before a Committee undertaking the investigation of an entirely different case”, the SSS otherwise known as DSS stated. But Dasuki disagreed, saying “I’m not also aware that the committee is operating from the SSS headquarters. What I know is that the committee is operating from the office of the National Security Adviser. So why is the SSS the one inviting me?”
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