EFCC Probe: I'll Honor Invitation To Salami Panel- Malami

Abubakar Malami, the Attorney General Federation (AGF) has said that he is ready to testify if he is invited by the Justice Ayo Salami-led panel.

Malami who said this during an interview on Arise TV on Wednesday was reacting to a letter by Ibrahim Magu, the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) requesting that Salami be summoned before the panel.

According to the  AGF,  he has nothing to hide and would not hesitate to give the Salami-led panel the full cooperation if need be.

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“So, if indeed the Ayo Salami panel invites Abubakar Malami as a person or the AGF in the person of Abubakar Malami for any testimony, for any clarification, for examination or cross-examination for that matter, Abubakar Malami will wholeheartedly, gladly within the spirit and context of the rule of law be there to testify, be there to be cross-examined, be there to be examined within the context of the rule of law.

“Our position as a government is to be submissive to the rule of law and the rule of law component of it requires that when we are called upon to clarify issues, when we are called upon to be examined, when we are called upon to be cross-examined, Abubakar Malami will be there and will gladly cooperate with the inquiry institution and that indeed was an attribute of the government that translated to the victory we are seeing today arising from P&ID.

“Abubakar Malami has along the line, within the chain of the arbitral process, submitted to uncountable invitations, responded to uncountable requests for clarification of issues and indeed executed uncountable witness statements for the purpose of putting the record straight and the case of Salami will certainly not be an exception.”

Magu, who is being investigated based on a petition from the AGF, had on Monday written a letter to the Salami-led panel through his lawyer, Wahab Shittu, calling on the panel to summon the AGF.