Osinbajo panel’s report will be made public soon
THE report of the panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari
and headed by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to investigate administrative
infractions by suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),
Babachir Lawal and Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo
Oke, would be made public soon.
A government official who pleaded for anonymity disclosed
this to Sunday Sun, adding that some aspects of the report were already being
implemented but that the full report and the decision of government would be
disclosed to the public soon.
One of the panel’s decisions, the government official said,
was that Lawal and Oke would remain suspended.
The Acting President was said to have submitted the panel’s
recommendations to President Buhari in a meeting they both had before he
traveled on Sunday, May 7, for medical consultations.
While Oke was quizzed for over 10 hours, Lawal was quizzed
for about two hours by the Osinbajo-led panel, which also comprised the
Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar
Malami and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno.
The panel had also quizzed Oke’s wife, Mrs. Folashade Oke,
for over two hours even as it invited the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria,
CBN, Godwin Emefiele, to provide answers to some critical questions on the two
cases.
The three-man Presidential Investigative Committee had the
mandate to investigate the discovery of foreign and local currencies by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi,
Lagos, which the NIA claimed belonged to it, and the allegation of due process
violations in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the
North East (PINE) leveled against the SGF.
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