ABRACADABRA: GO AND SIN NO MORE!!! EFCC Quickly Releases Babachir Lawal From Detention, 48 Hours After Making Shocking Confessions
The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has released the former
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, on bail.
Lawal regained his freedom after
spending about 48 hours in the custody of the anti-graft agency in Abuja, the
Federal Capital Territory.
The EFCC had said that the former
SGF was cooperating with investigators and making useful confessional
statements while in its custody.
Recall that Lawal was accused of
violating the due process in the award of contracts under the Presidential
Initiative on the North East, PINE.
He was
consequently suspended in April 2017 (alongside the former Director General of
the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke) by President Muhammadu Buhari who
set up a three-man panel to investigate the allegations of corruption against
both men.
After considering the report of
the panel, the President sacked the former SFG and the former NIA DG in October
2017 and appointed Mr Boss Mustapha to replace Lawal.
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