Activists urge EFCC to prosecute ex-AGF Aondoakaa for ‘corruption’

ACTIVISTS and members of a civil society group, Global Integrity
Crusade Network (GICN), have urged the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) to order the arrest and prosecution of a
former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of
Justice, Michael Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN), in the next seven days for
alleged corruption and abuse of office.

In a petition addressed to the chairman of the anti-graft
agency, dated Tuesday, August 13, and titled: “Pending allegations
against Mr Micheal Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN) bordering on fraud,
corruption, flagrant abuse of his office as Attorney General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice between 2007 to 2010 as well as
involvement in the $182 million Halliburton scam,” the group spoke
in Abuja through its Director of Special Duties, Akan Augustine
Eneji.

The petitioners alleged that in 2010, Aondoakaa was stripped of
the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) by the
Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, following several
petitions against him for alleged unethical conducts while he was
the AGF.

The petition reads: “We recall with bitterness how Aondoakaa,
being a close associate of James Ibori, the disgraced former
governor of oil-rich Delta State, worked openly to undermine the
independence of the EFCC and to derail domestic and international
efforts to bring Ibori to justice.

His strong-arm tactics and near usurpation of the powers of the
commission earned him considerable notoriety…”