The Attorney-General of
the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, insists
that only President Muhammadu Buhari has the power to sack the acting
chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu.
Malami, a senior advocate of Nigeria, said this on a Channels TV
programme titled, Question Time over the weekend.
Magu has been rejected twice by the senate for confirmation as the EFFC
substantive chairman following a damning report against him by the DSS.
The Nigerian Senate rejected the tainted anti-corruption boss for a 2nd
time on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. The Senate cited his abysmally poor
performance at the “job interview” and a security report by the
country’s secret police which said that Magu was living an obscenely
corrupt lifestyle and had failed the “integrity test”.
When the federal attorney general was asked if it was proper for Magu to
continue in acting capacity despite being rejected twice by the Senate,
he said, “I cannot comment on the position of my office but one thing I
can tell you clearly is that power is vested in the President
constitutionally and it is the President that has the prerogative and
the right to make any conclusion that arises from there.”
When probed further if Magu’s integrity challenge would not affect the
anti-graft war, Malami said he wouldn’t, “like to pre-empt the position
of the presidency over that.”
Malami, however, denied reports that the anti-corruption war was
selective.
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