The Attorney General of the
Federation (AGF) and Minster of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has insisted that he
did not authorize the controversial letter that reinstated the embattled former
Chairman, Presidential Taskforce on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina.
Malami made his position known on
Thursday during a resumed public hearing on Maina by the House of
Representatives in Abuja.
Absolving himself of the Maina
controversy and debunking claims that the purported letter of Maina’s
reinstatement into the service came from his office, Malami said: “The
purported letter dated February 21, 2017 made available by the committee
couldn’t have genuinely emanated from the Attorney General.
“The letter dated October 5, 2017
which was never signed off on that, I arrive at an irresistible conclusion that
Maina’s request for the reinstatement was an ongoing process in the Office of
the Attorney General as at October 5, 2017.
“It is against the background of
the unfinished process relating to the demand or request for the SA to convince
the Attorney General as to how the effect of judgement provided by Maina could
have a coessential effect on reinstatement which was not developed and
presented.”
Some of those grilled today by
the House Committee included the Head of Service of the Federation Winifred
Oyo-Ita, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Abubakar Magaji,
and the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mohammed
Babandede.
Others invited to explain their
roles also were the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, the acting Chairman of
the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, the Director-General of the DSS, Lawal Daura, and the
acting chairman Federal Civil Service Commission, Oluremi Akande.
In the course of the questioning,
all the government officers denied being responsible for the reinstatement of
the former pension boss.
Oyo-Ita took time to explain the
process for reinstating any official into the civil service.
According to her, any officer who
is newly employed or recalled into office usually has to get a nod from the
office of the HOS, however, that was not the case with Mr. Maina.
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