CCT: AGF EFCC, others Challenge Saraki To Defend Charges

   Senate President, Bukola Saraki

•Ask him not to politicise trial

By Senator Iroegbu in Abuja

The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase and others have challenged the Senate President, Bukola Saraki,  to follow due process to defend himself before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, instead of trying to politicise his trial.

In a counter-affidavit they filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in response to a fresh suit by Saraki, they denied being influenced by any political consideration to initiate the 13-count false asset declaration charge against him (Saraki) before the CCT.

The concerned officials and agencies advised the Senate President to rather  direct his energy towards defending the charge against him and not impute political motive to his ordeal.


They faulted Saraki’s claim that his trial was politically motivated.

The AGF, EFCC, IGP, the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation (DPPF), Mohammed Diri, and Muslim Hassan  (a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Justice) said Saraki’s trial was informed by the outcome of a joint investigation conducted by the EFCC, Department of State Services (DSS), the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) between 2003 and 2015.

They said the investigation revealed, among others, that Saraki lied in the information he presented in the CCB Forms he completed between 2003 and 2011 in Ikoyi and Ikeja, Lagos, using third party companies in which he had interest, with the intension of concealing his interests in such property. They gave the name of the companies as: Tiny Tee Limited, Vitti Oil Limited, Skyview Properties Limited and Carlisle Properties.

The AGF, EFCC, IGP, Diri and Hassan added that the Senate President lied in his claim that an official of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Bulus Michael, informed him that his trial was politically motivated. They said no official of the ministry bears such name.