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Nigerian-Canadian Justice Minister and Solicitor General, Kaycee Madu, to 'step back' from ministerial duties after it was revealed that he called Edmonton’s police chief after receiving a distracted driving ticket https:///6Ui0s19KaG

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has asked justice minister and solicitor general Kaycee Madu to step back from ministerial duties pending the completion of an investigation.

Madu was appointed in August 2020. He is stepping aside following reports he was accused of calling Edmonton’s police chief to rescind a ticket fine for using his phone while driving.

“In the interim period, I have asked Minister Madu to step back from his ministerial duties,” Kennedy tweeted on Tuesday. “Minister Sonya Savage will act as Minister of Justice and Solicitor General during Minister Madu’s leave of absence.”

In March, media reports said the Nigerian-born minister was pulled over on March 10, 2021 and fined $300 for being on his cellphone while driving in a school zone.

The reports said he allegedly called Edmonton police Chief Dale McFee to discuss the ticket.

Madu said he was pulled over by an Edmonton police officer, who alleged he was driving while on his phone. But disagrees with the offence, saying his phone was in his pocket.

Court records showed that Madu was issued a ticket for operating a vehicle while using a cellphone for which he paid the $300 fine two days later.

Madu insists that he did not commit the offence and suggested that the issue could be linked to matters of racial profiling happening at that time.

“To be abundantly clear, at no point did I request that the ticket be rescinded. I would never do that. However, in that particular call, I regret raising the issue at all with the Chief McFee,” Madu said.

“Due to the timing of the incident, I wanted to ensure that I was not being unlawfully surveilled following the controversy surrounding the Lethbridge Police Service.

“I also raised concerns around profiling of racial minorities that was in the media at the time.”

But Alberta opposition party NDP justice critic Irfan Sabir said Madu’s actions were “wholly unnacceptable” and called for his resignation.

Sabir accused Madu of using “his position as minister to initiate this conversation, and regardless of whether he asked the chief to cancel the ticket, it is political interference for him to have discussed it all.”

Kennedy said he “will appoint a respected independent investigator to review the relevant facts and to determine whether there was interference in the administration of justice in this case.”

https://guardian.ng/news/madu-nigerian-appointed-justice-minister-in-canada-told-to-step-aside/

Canada is not Nigeria where you can use your position to bypass the law.

It is well with you Mr Madu.

Society where things work

Malami will be having a healthy laugh. I remember his fued with this guy last year. This life Sha.

See a working society

aspabay:
Canada is not Nigeria where you can use your position to bypass the law.

You clearly don't know how politics works.

While quota system based Malami the landmine is still gallivanting around in the mud stained toga of a senior advocate after being fingered in the criminal and illegal invasion of the house of a supreme court judge among other inanities.
Nigeria I hail oo

Agbegbaorogboye:
While quota system based Malami the landmine is still gallivanting around in the mud stained toga of a senior advocate after being fingered in the criminal and illegal invasion of the house of a supreme court judge among other inanities.
Nigeria I hail oo

The way you guys just open your mouth to talk thing that you know nothing about.

If Malami became a SAN via quota system, go try am na, you think say e easy?

You think NJC is like your village club?

aspabay:
The way you guys just open your mouth to talk thing that you know nothing about.

If Malami became a SAN via quota system, go try am na, you think say e easy?

You think NJC is like your village club?

You dis boy and your flamboyant ignorance!! Always jumping at every opportunity to showcase it.

May I ask what business NJC have with being SAN?

Yet you're talking of how easy or not easy it is to obtain SAN you know nothing about?

Shame!!