As the probe into the contentious $2.1 billion meant for arms procurement for the military continues, revelations have continued to surface as to how the funds were expended by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) under Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
The latest revelation is coming from the President of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria, Nduka Obaigbena, who in a letter to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) accused the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) of collecting the sum of N50 million from the ONSA.
The NGE as at that time was under the leadership of Mr. Femi Adesina, who is now Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity.
The letter to the EFCC was dated December 30, 2015.
Recall that Obaigbena, who is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Thisday Newspaper, was accused of receiving N120 million from Dasuki on behalf of NPAN to be shared to some media houses as compensation for the disruption of their circulation by the Nigerian military under former President Goodluck Jonathan.
He has also been accused of receiving the sum of N670 million from Dasuki as compensation for the bombing of the newspaper’s offices in Abuja and Kaduna and as payment to NPAN for the restrictions of circulation vans of newspaper houses which caused many individual media houses under the organisation to incur heavy losses.