Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, has denied claims that neither he nor his office authorised the raid of the Abuja residence of Justice Mary Odili, a Justice of the Supreme Court.
The rebuttal was in a statement issued by Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the AGF.
But according to Gwandu, the AGF would not stoop so low to authorise such a raid which had a questionable warrant issued for it.
“Malami will not stoop too low to be associated with an apparent in-elegant and nasty court process on the strength of which the purported search warrant was procured. The media reports on the issue depict too untidy process that could never emanate from the Office of the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice,” the statement read.
Malami also announced that he has authorised a probe into the circumstances of the raid.
“The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has since reached out to the relevant authorities for an intensified wider investigation on the matter for necessary actions leading to the prosecution of anyone involved in the matter in view of the fact that the only names on record from the process filed in Court are a purported police officer who claimed to be “O/C Assets Recovery Team” and one Aliyu Umar a deponent in the affidavit.
“The claim of the Chief Magistrate as reported by a section of the media to the effect that he was being misled by office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice into the issuance of the search warrant is equally forwarded to the relevant investigation agencies to ascertain veracity or otherwise of the purported association of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and which officer if any in the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice is associated with such claimed misrepresentation,” the statement read.
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