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Malami Denies Ordering Raid On Justice Odili’s Home
Nigeria’s Lawyer Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN has denied ordering or enjoying a job in a raid carried out on Supreme Courtroom Justice, Mary Odili’s Residence.
In a press release despatched to PRESSINFORMANT on Saturday, signed by his media aide, Umar Gwandu, the AGF expressly acknowledged that he was not in ‘any means related with the fabrications and concocted lies linking him to the ensued imbroglio referring to information tales in regards to the residence of a Justice of the Supreme Courtroom; Justice Mary Odili.’
He acknowledged the clarification to debunk the mischievous publication grew to become crucial in view of the media hype and the dimension the story is taking.
“It is very important set the document straight that because the Chief Legislation Officer of the Federation, Malami won’t stoop too low to be related to an obvious in-elegant and nasty court docket course of on the power of which the purported search warrant was procured.”
“The media reviews on the difficulty depict to untidy course of that might by no means emanate from the Workplace of the Honourable Lawyer Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice.”
“Most of the people must know that there was nothing known as “Joint Panel Restoration Beneath the Ministry of Justice” within the Workplace of the Lawyer Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice, and by extension the complete Federal Ministry of Justice.”
“What we now have is Inter-Ministerial Committee on Belongings Restoration” the mandate of which doesn’t embody stings operations. Quite a few incongruities within the paperwork being circulated in relation to the saga reveal traces of felony actions which explicit regards to:
1. The identify as contained on the purported letter headed paper “Ghost’s Account For Native Whistle Blowers & Belongings Tax Restoration Panel”,
2. The ambiguous reference to “Ministry of Justice” with out clarifying as as to if it’s Federal or State Ministry and of which State,
3. The claimed workplace tackle which as revealed by the letter headed paper just isn’t the tackle of the Federal Ministry of Justice
4. E-mail tackle used on the letter
“All these deductions would have assisted a discerning thoughts to reach at an affordable conclusion of felony undertones related to the court docket course of on the premise of which the purported search warrant was procured.”
“The Workplace of the Lawyer Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice has since reached out to the related authorities for an intensified wider investigation on the matter for mandatory actions resulting in the prosecution of anybody concerned within the matter in view of the truth that the one names on document from the method filed in court docket are a purported police officer who claimed to be “O/C Belongings Restoration Crew” and one Aliyu Umar a deponent within the affidavit.”
“The declare of the chief Justice of the Peace as reported by a bit of the media to the impact that he was being misled by workplace of the Lawyer Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice into the issuance of the search warrant is equally forwarded to the related investigation companies to determine veracity or in any other case of the purported affiliation of the Lawyer Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice and which officer if any within the Workplace of the Lawyer Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice is related to such claimed misrepresentation.”
