A close ally of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has returned $500,000 he allegedly received from the embattled former national security adviser Sambo Dasuki.
Lawal Jarafu Isa, a leading member of the governing All Progressive Congress, was arrested last week as part of an ongoing investigation into $2 billion meant to buy military equipment to fight militant Islamists group Boko Haram, that had allegedly gone missing during the rule of former president Goodluck Jonathan.
Isa was the first ally of President Buhari to be arrested over corruption.
He was accused of receiving $850,000 from Dasuki.
Local media report that he had been released after promising to return the remaining $350,000 he allegedly received.
Isa reportedly said that he was given the money to buy a house for Dasuki, and was unaware that the money came from government coffers.
