Senate applauds Buhari for suspending SGF, Babachir
What Shehu Sani failed to tell Nigerians on the television interview programme, however, was whether or not the Senate that he belongs to would also take a bold step like Buhari to cleanse itself of corrupt Senators having several allegations of corruption and crimes some of whom are undergoing trials in courts including the Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki. It would be recalled that Saraki had been severally called upon to step aside pending the determination of his cases of corruption and crimes in court. He refused and remains on seat till present.
Chairman of the Senate Ad-Hoc Commitee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North East, Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna) has described the suspension of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. David Babachir Lawal as a welcome development.
Sani’s committee had in December last year indicted Lawal in a grass cutting contract scandal worth N200m involving the Presidential Initiative on North East (PINE). The Senate in a unanimous resolution requested President Buhari to sack the SGF.
Rather, Buhari in letter to the Senate in January, said the Senators were unfair to the SGF. The SGF issue is one of the causes of the feud between the executive and the legislature.
Sani in a statement said the suspension was commendable and that President Buhari has taken the Senate Committee report and recommendations seriously.
Also speaking in a television interview Wednesday night, Senator Shehu Sani, applauding the President’s action, said it was sign that Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war was real.
He lauded the President for the bold and courageous move that he took saying that every Nigerian would now see that there was nothing like selective fight in the anti-corruption war of the Federal Government as the President, according to him, was seriously embarking on cleansing of the executive of corrupt people.
What Shehu Sani failed to tell Nigerians on the television interview programme, however, was whether or not the Senate that he belongs to would also take a bold step like Buhari to cleanse itself of corrupt Senators having several allegations of corruption and crimes some of whom are undergoing trials in courts including the Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki. It would be recalled that Saraki had been severally called upon to step aside pending the determination of his cases of corruption and crimes in court. He refused and remains on seat till present.
