Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s
Committee, set up to investigate the
suspended Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, SGF,
Babachir Lawal and the Director-
General of the Nigerian Intelligence Agence, NIA, Ayo Oke, has
recommended the removal of the duo. This recommendation, contained in the
report of the probe, leaked to the
media on Wednesday. Similarly, a massive shake-up has been
planned for the NIA and the SGF’s
offices. The Nigerian government is, however,
expected to release the findings and
recommendations once President
Muhammadu Buhari gives his nod. Buhari, it was gathered, received the
report before his medical follow-up trip
abroad last Sunday.
He and Osinbajo had a closed-door
deliberation on the next line of action. Other members are Attorney-General
and Minister of Justice Abubakar
Malami and National Security Adviser
(NSA) Gen. Babagana Munguno. But it is not yet known if there will be
any form of soft landing for Lawal and
Oke.
A source told DAILY POST that “I don’t
envisage public ridicule of suspended
Lawal and Oke. But they will be made
to cough out whatever money went
missing under them.” Recall that the Centre for Anti-
Corruption and Open Leadership,
CACOL, raised alarm that there was a ploy by those close to President Buhari
to give them a soft-landing. CACOL in a statement by its Director,
Debo Adeniran, said “The body
language we are getting from the FG of
recent is of a government now
buckling down to serious business. “We trust that the Vice President, as a
man of proven integrity himself, must
have assembled a team he believed
would midwife foolproof investigation
and come up with impeccable findings. “The country is at the edge of a
precipice and I don’t think this
government has the time to elongate
keeping those who are not in same
spirit with it in office.”

Mogidi:
[s]Why is Osibanjo usurping the powers of the police/EFCC?
This is all a smokescreen, the Grasscutter won't be charged to court.[/s]

Aufbauh:
By this action the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken clearly and loudly about the anti graft war.