GreenAgain:

Zainab Abiola, counsel to Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC), has described her client’s probe as a “hatchet job.”

In an interview with TheCable, Abiola, who was walked out of the panel’s sitting on Monday, said there is no evidence that Magu is guilty of the allegations against him.

President Muhammadu Buhari set up the panel to probe corruption allegations levelled against the anti-graft czar.

At its sitting at the presidential villa on Monday, Wahab Shittu, Magu’s lead counsel, was joined by Abiola and Aliyu Lemu, another of his lawyers.

But Ayo Salami, head of the panel, insisted that only Shittu would be allowed to defend Magu, and asked his other lawyers to leave the venue.

Speaking with TheCable about her experience, the lawyer, who is one of the widows of the late MKO Abiola, said it is wrong for the panel to refuse Magu’s lawyers access to their sitting.

“This is a democratic dispensation, you cannot bring military tactics, a Hitler’s Gestapo rule to this type of occasion,” she said.

“The panel was set up to be public. How then did it become a private sitting with Emperor Salami? He has become an emperor. He told me personally that there is only one chair for a lawyer. So I said, if there is only one chair, send for more chairs now.

“He called the DSS, they were fully armed. So, we left. But the other lady, Fatimah, was bundled and put in a cell, in a prison cell. So, there is a prison in the presidential villa? Nigerians should worry for themselves.”

Abiola, a former presidential aspirant, further told TheCable that while the former EFCC chairman’s rights are being trampled upon at the moment, it could be anyone else’s turn next.

“If you see how Magu was just sitting there, like a sheep without a shepherd. Like a Christmas goat about to be slaughtered by Emperor Salami. Why would they refuse me access to such a fundamental probe? It is a nullity, very shambolic,” she added.

“They don’t have anything against Magu. Not a shred of evidence. The pastor they said took the money. FCMB has apologised in three national papers to Magu and the pastor. They also said Magu did not investigate the P&ID case and he was exonerated.

“What is the allegation? How can lawyers not be allowed to represent him? It is not as if we went alone; we were introduced by Magu himself. Did they imagine that it will be only one lawyer defending a man like that?

“Twenty-two allegations, 22 lies. The fact of the matter is that this is not a panel of inquiry. It is a Kangaroo contraction with Salami as the emperor.”

Magu has often accused the panel of not giving him fair hearing, saying he has not been allowed to defend himself.

After he requested the panel to summon Malami to give evidence of his alleged crimes, the AGF said he would gladly testify against him if asked to do so.


https://www.thecable.ng/i-never-knew-theres-a-cell-at-aso-rock-magus-lawyer-speaks-on-encounter-with-salami

GreenAgain:

Zainab Abiola, counsel to Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC), has described her client’s probe as a “hatchet job.”

In an interview with TheCable, Abiola, who was walked out of the panel’s sitting on Monday, said there is no evidence that Magu is guilty of the allegations against him.

President Muhammadu Buhari set up the panel to probe corruption allegations levelled against the anti-graft czar.

At its sitting at the presidential villa on Monday, Wahab Shittu, Magu’s lead counsel, was joined by Abiola and Aliyu Lemu, another of his lawyers.

But Ayo Salami, head of the panel, insisted that only Shittu would be allowed to defend Magu, and asked his other lawyers to leave the venue.

Speaking with TheCable about her experience, the lawyer, who is one of the widows of the late MKO Abiola, said it is wrong for the panel to refuse Magu’s lawyers access to their sitting.

“This is a democratic dispensation, you cannot bring military tactics, a Hitler’s Gestapo rule to this type of occasion,” she said.

“The panel was set up to be public. How then did it become a private sitting with Emperor Salami? He has become an emperor. He told me personally that there is only one chair for a lawyer. So I said, if there is only one chair, send for more chairs now.

“He called the DSS, they were fully armed. So, we left. But the other lady, Fatimah, was bundled and put in a cell, in a prison cell. So, there is a prison in the presidential villa? Nigerians should worry for themselves.”

Abiola, a former presidential aspirant, further told TheCable that while the former EFCC chairman’s rights are being trampled upon at the moment, it could be anyone else’s turn next.

“If you see how Magu was just sitting there, like a sheep without a shepherd. Like a Christmas goat about to be slaughtered by Emperor Salami. Why would they refuse me access to such a fundamental probe? It is a nullity, very shambolic,” she added.

“They don’t have anything against Magu. Not a shred of evidence. The pastor they said took the money. FCMB has apologised in three national papers to Magu and the pastor. They also said Magu did not investigate the P&ID case and he was exonerated.

“What is the allegation? How can lawyers not be allowed to represent him? It is not as if we went alone; we were introduced by Magu himself. Did they imagine that it will be only one lawyer defending a man like that?

“Twenty-two allegations, 22 lies. The fact of the matter is that this is not a panel of inquiry. It is a Kangaroo contraction with Salami as the emperor.”

Magu has often accused the panel of not giving him fair hearing, saying he has not been allowed to defend himself.

After he requested the panel to summon Malami to give evidence of his alleged crimes, the AGF said he would gladly testify against him if asked to do so.


https://www.thecable.ng/i-never-knew-theres-a-cell-at-aso-rock-magus-lawyer-speaks-on-encounter-with-salami

Jwonder:
I feel no pity for magu, go and ask what Magu did to young boys arrested because of cyber crime, so many people where unjustly detained for days without access to a lawyer or their parents, he was doing all these to impress his pay master’s forgetting that “nothing lasts forever”, let him also feel how he made others feel, Salami should even lock him up forever.

Same punishment awaits police officers politicians use to stop Citizens from protesting, very soon they will retire and cry for their pensions and we will be here to mock their stupidity.

Jwonder:
I feel no pity for magu, go and ask what Magu did to young boys arrested because of cyber crime, so many people where unjustly detained for days without access to a lawyer or their parents, he was doing all these to impress his pay master’s forgetting that “nothing lasts forever”, let him also feel how he made others feel, Salami should even lock him up forever.

Same punishment awaits police officers politicians use to stop Citizens from protesting, very soon they will retire and cry for their pensions and we will be hvere to mock their stupidity.

Awol1:
These stupid feminists and their overbloated ego eh...

From the beginning of the enquiry, only one lawyer has been representing Magu, now he wanted to bring in a herd of lawyers for what? To intimidate Salami or what?

Salami is the chairman of that panel of enquiry and he has powers to set the rules that would guide it. Right now he has said every yam eater connected to drinking Tinubu urine, that would be appearing before the panel, is entitled to only one lawyer. And only one sit was provided for a lawyer. What's difficult to understand there?

Fools would ask FIFA for 3 more onfield referees if they were to participate in a football match.

The cake Magu is eating today, he has been serving it to others. He should tell us how it tastes now he's eating it.

What goes around really comes around!

frankyychiji:
You nearly convinced me you were intelligent if not for your opening speech. What has feminism got to do with the issue? How did the woman's comment depict feminism?

Like you are one of the insecure lots who won't move and won't give way for others to move up.
I long to see the video of your birth sliding out of your daddy's puna.ni with unbilical cord, blood, water, serum wailing twa twa twa twa.

I also love to see pictures of your uncles breastfeeding you. Then would I stand your morbid disgust at woman who has made their marks in their chosen careers!

“If you see how Magu was just sitting there, like a sheep without a shepherd. Like a Christmas goat about to be slaughtered by Emperor Salami. . .

sinkhole:


This is how Mr Femi and Mallam Garba will be sitting in the very near future