Pres Buhari writes Senate, explains why he cannot order the arrest and prosecution of SGF Babachir Lawal

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

President Buhari has written a letter to the Senate, explaining why he cannot grant their request to call for the order and prosecution of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.

Recall that senators called for Babachir's arrest and prosecution after he was indicted in the Interim Report of The Ad-Hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North East...

In the report, the committee alleged that Babachir who is the Chairman of the Presidetial Initiative of the North East PINE, awarded contracts to a company which he has links to(read here).

In a letter sent to the senate and read on the floor of the house today by Senate President Bukola Saraki, President Buhari gave reasons why he cannot act on the senate's recommendation to sack, arrest and prosecute Babachir. Chairman of the senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North East, Shehu Sani, said everything in President Buhari's letter to the senate is a lie.