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Nigeria's former national security adviser Sambo Dasuki , centre, arrives for a hearing to face charges of possessing weapons illegally, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. Nigeria’s former national security adviser says $47 million was withdrawn in cash from the Central Bank on the order of former President Goodluck Jonathan and was used to pay delegates at a party presidential nomination conference. Retired Col. Sambo Dasuki submitted the written statement before he was charged Monday at the Federal High Court with 19 counts of money-laundering and criminal breach of trust connected to the disappearance of $2.1 billion meant to buy arms to fight Boko Haram. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)
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