Mr. Magu to request the Panel to summon the
AGF to prove the allegations. After some reluctance, the Panel issued a subpoena on the
AGF to testify at the Panel, but the
AGF, blatantly ignored the summons. In the absence of the vital evidence of the
AGF the Panel decided to listen to suspects charged with serious economic and financial crimes by the
EFCC under the leadership of
Mr. Magu. Of course no sooth sayer is needed before one would know that such witnesses have an axe to grind with
Magu and therefore, their evidence will, most likely, be tainted. Expectedly, the witnesses were reported to have given evidence against Mr. Magu. Although, the law is trite that evidence which ought to be given but is not given will be presumed to be against the person who refused to give such evidence if given. See
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Right from the outset of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in 2015, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has been marked for vilification by forces within and outside the government who saw and still see his gain as Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice as their loss. As it were, barring any act of God, they will have to live with their sense of loss until May 29, 2023 when the second term of the administration comes to an end.
The forces had calculated and, in fact, wished that Buhari would drop him as a cabinet member in his second term, or possibly move him to another ministry. But that did not happen. The 54-year-old technocrat/politician stays to their uttermost chagrin. The man from Kebbi is taking the series of man-created storms after his appointment in his strides.
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In line with one of the recommendations of the presidential panel led by former Court of Appeal President, Justice Ayo Salami, which investigated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and then acting chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu, last year, a new EFCC was born.
This is so as Abdulrasheed Bawa is now the first EFCC chairperson not to have been an officer of the Nigeria Police Force, which makes him not a subservient officer to anyone including the Inspector-General of Police.
As an independent, neutral, and even-handed chief of the nation’s anti-corruption agency, Bawa will directly answer to the people through the President and the legislature. In this regard, unlike the Nigeria Police Force with its chronic and embedded institutional and public troubles, the EFCC boss will independently approach all manner of corruption and criminal investigations with authoritative leadership in an environment that allows f
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