Suspended SGF, Babachir Lawal Has Gone for Good – Presidency Opens Up

The presidency has spoken out on the suspension of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, declaring that is gone for good.

The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof
Itse SaGaey (SAN), has reacted to the suspension of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, saying that he is gone for good, adding that he is no longer a part of the Buhari administration Itse SaGaey accused the former SGF of violating the Code of Conduct for public officials by awarding a contract to a company linked to him. “I think the suspensions are inevitable, and in my view
they are a journey to total disengagement.

“The SGF is a top member of the
administration. He should have known that for him to award a contract to his own company is absolutely prohibited by the
Code of Conduct and the Constitution. What he was doing was illegal and unconstitutional.

“The worse is that he didn’t even award the contract for relevant activity such as for food, rather it was for grass cutting, which
is totally unrelated to the needs of this people for very basic life saving materials.”

While also speaking on the suspension of the director general of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency, SaGaey said: “This one is
even worse in my view. How can you hold over $40million of state money in a private apartment, without the knowledge of the
head of state to whom you’re responsible?

“So they’ve turned themselves into a government of their own. They didn’t inform the present administration that they got this
money from the Jonathan administration and this is what it was meant for and this is
what is left.

“Once they didn’t do that, then they were all on a criminal conduct which should lead to
what has happened now. It’s very clear that they intended to convert it to their private
use. That’s why I said everything is inevitable.”