The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of
Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Saturday distanced himself from the reported
invasion of the residence of a Justice of the Supreme Court, Mary Odili, by
security operatives.
He also ordered a probe into the circumstances surrounding
the raid of the justice’s home.
A statement by his Special Assistant, Media and Public
Relations, Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, said the clarification became imperative in
view of the media hype and the dimension the story had taken.
He said, “It is important to set the record straight that as
the Chief Law Officer of the federation, Malami will not stoop too low to be
associated with an apparent in-elegant and nasty court process on the strength
of which the purported search warrant was procured.
“The media reports on the issue depict too untidy process
that could never emanate from the Office of the Honourable Attorney-General of
the Federation and Minister of Justice.”
He said the general public needs to know that there was
nothing called Joint Panel Recovery Under the Ministry of Justice in the Office
of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, and by
extension the entire Federal Ministry of Justice.
According to the statement, what the ministry has is the
Inter-ministerial Committee on Assets Recovery and its mandate does not include
stings operations.
The statement further read, “The Office of the
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has since reached
out to the relevant authorities for an intensified wider investigation on the
matter for necessary actions leading to the prosecution of anyone involved in
the matter in view of the fact that the only names on record from the process
filed in Court are a purported police officer who claimed to be “O/C Assets
Recovery Team” and one Aliyu Umar a deponent in the affidavit.
“The claim of the Chief Magistrate as reported by a section
of the media to the effect that he was being misled by office of the
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice into the issuance of
the search warrant is equally forwarded to the relevant investigation agencies
to ascertain veracity or otherwise of the purported association of the Attorney-General
of the Federation and Minister of Justice and which officer if any in the
Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice is
associated with such claimed misrepresentation.”
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