Chairman, Presidential Advisory
Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has called on President
Muhammadu Buhari to order the immediate probe of Attorney General of the Federation,
AGF, Abubakar Malami.
Sagay said Malami’s role in the
return of former Chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms,
Abdulrasheed Maina, was disappointing.
“As the attorney general, you met
a fugitive who is wanted for a very heinous crime of depriving thousands of
elderly people of their rights.
“You don’t, for any reason, go to
hold discussions with such a person”, he told Punch.
“Your job should be to extradite
and try him. He compromised himself by meeting with him.
“He says he didn’t write any
letter regarding the reinstatement of Maina but the letter emanated from his
ministry. So, let the President investigate the attorney general.”
Sagay, however, agreed with
Malami that the Senate was being overzealous by probing his role in the Maina
scandal.
“I think the Senate is
overzealous in its approach. It investigates everything and in the end, we
hardly see anything. I think it is spending too much time setting up
sub-committees to investigate everything.”
Senate yesterday lambasted Malami
for his moves to stop its investigation into the controversial reinstatement of
Maina.
The upper chamber of the National
Assembly said Malami had been “running around the courts” to stop the probe of
a man “surreptitiously” reinstated into the Federal Government’s service after
he had been dismissed.
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