Northern Group Urge Buhari To Sack Malami Over Attack On Magu

A northern Nigerian group, Kanuri Collective Agenda (KCA), Sunday implored President Muhammadu Buhari, to sack the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami for attempting to drag the reputation of the acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu in the mud.

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

Malami was also said to have included a short list of three candidates for consideration to replace Magu.

The justice minister also accused the EFCC boss of disclosing a total naira recovery of N504 billion.

However, a close associate of the EFCC boss reportedly said that he actually lodged N543 billion in the Recovery Account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), exceeding the disclosed figures by N39 billion.

Reacting to the allegation against Magu, spokesman of the group , Malam Waziri Ibrahim, in a statement 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 Mr. President is running a very corrupt administration.”

“Magu’s anti-corruption war has earned national and international accolades for this administration, which Malami has rubbished with his memo to Mr. President. 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.