Northern group asks Buhari to sack Justice Minister over comments on EFCC boss

A northern Nigerian group, Kanuri Collective Agenda (KCA), has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, for recommending the removal of the acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu.

According to media reports, Malami had written Buhari recommending the sack of Magu based on several grounds “raging from diversion of recovered loot to insubordination and misconduct.”

Reacting to the allegation against Magu, KCA, in a statement issued by its spokesman, Malam Waziri Ibrahim, told Buhari that Malami’s allegation will make mockery of the administration’s anti-corruption war and expose his administration to ridicule.

“By making such weighty allegation against Magu, the justice minister has only succeeded in telling the opposition and the international community that Buhari’s anti-corruption war is a farce because the champion of the anti-graft war is corruption-personified. The allegation also implies that the president is running a very corrupt administration.

“Magu’s anti-corruption war has earned national and international accolades for this administration Malami has provided the opposition with enough weapons to attack Mr. President and his administration. Indeed, even the opposition could not have made such damning allegation against Magu because no one could have believed them in view of his unblemished records.

“But when such allegation is coming from a key member of the administration who is believed to have insider knowledge of the key actors in government, the public may be inclined to believing such allegation. So, Malami has provided the opposition parties with weapons to rubbish Buhari’s anti-corruption war and take his administration to the cleaners,” the group explained.

The group alleged that since the demise of Kyari in May, the justice minister has been “bombarding the office of the president with so-called legal opinions and letters, most of which advance his personal interests and settle personal scores.

KCA further alleged that the letter by Malami asking the president to sack Magu was one of such letters and opinions meant to settle scores and advance his interest in this present administration.

According to the KCA, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had already taken advantage of the situation by alleging at the weekend that Malami’s memo to the president has further exposed the corruption, deception and hypocrisy the party said pervade the Buhari-led government.

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