Prof.
Itse Sagay (SAN), the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption,
PACAC, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to compose a panel to
probe the suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.
According
to Sagay, Chairman of the panel, Isa Ayo Salami, is the only person without a
vested interest in Buhari’s team.
“I
criticise the Salami panel for taking evidence from the accusers behind Magu’s
back and for not giving him the petitions against him in advance of his
defence,” Sagay said, according to the Nation.
The frontline lawyer noted that the panel is packed with DSS, Ministry of Justice and others from security agencies who are all Magu’s accusers.
“Justice
Salami appears to be the only neutral person on the panel.
“The
Supreme Court of the golden age era once condemned this in strong terms in
Chief Gani Fawehinmi v. the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee ([1985]
2 NWLR (Pt. 7) p. 300) as ‘come here quickly for your assured condemnation’.
Sagay,
however, said he believes that Salami, whmo he described as a man of integrity,
will not allow any injustice to happen in spite of the composition of the
panel.
Aliyu
Lemu, Magu’s lawyer had on Monday said that up till this moment, his client has
not been told why he is being investigated.
Earlier,
Magu had claimed that some powerful toes he stepped on while doing his job as
the EFCC Chairman were out to tarnish his image and destroy his reputation.
Magu
is being investigated over alleged mismanagement and lack of transparency in
managing recovered assets by the EFCC from 2015 to 2020.
The
Presidency at the weekend gave Salami-led panel 45 days to submit its report.
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