SGF Snubs Senate, Goes To Court

Mr. Lawal Babachir, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), has resolved not to honour Senate’s invitation over the handling of funds for North-East rehabilitation. He rather decided to head to the court, to challenge the propriety of the invitation and his being investigated on the issue.

It should be noted that an ad hoc Committee on Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East investigating allegations of misappropriation of funds for rehabilitation of the region had invited the SGF to a public hearing on the issue.

The SGF was formally invited after his indictment by the committee at the first public hearing on the matter, for which the presidency had said that he (SGF) was not given fair hearing. Through a letter written to him, the committee had indicated that the essence of the second public hearing was another opportunity of fair hearing for stakeholders who refused to attend the first hearing.

In a letter to the Chairman of the ad hoc committee, Sen. Shehu Sani, in Abuja on Wednesday, Mr. Lawal Babachir, said that rather than attend the hearing, he was challenging the invitation at the court.

The letter signed by the SGF read: “I wish to kindly request that you draw the attention of the other members of the committee that I will not be able to appear before the committee primarily because I have gone to court to challenge the invitation among others. The letter stated.

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