Malami: I Need No Power to Supervise EFCC

Malami  in a statement issued by his  Special Assistant
on Media, Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu,
 on Tuesday 25th August 2020 ,  said he requires no
additional powers to effectively regulate agencies under his
supervision. 

The statement read: “it is trite to say that by virtue of the
extant laws of the land as well as rules and legislations governing
the conduct of the governmental operations, the Attorney-General of
the Federation has
indisputable statutory powers to regulte the operations of the
commissions without recourse to any additional legislations.

“Section 43 of the EFCC Act has made it abundantly clear that
“the Attorney General of the Federation may make rules or
regulations with respect to the  exercise of any of the
duties, functions or powers of the      Commission
under this Act”.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the Attorney General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice believes in the doctrines of
separation of powers as an epitome character of  the
democratic administration and could
not therefore meddle into the affairs of legislature for
megalomaniac sake”.

“It is a global practice in democratic societies that the
legislature may at their discretion and as deem fit, spearhead the
amendment of existing legislations in order to accommodate certain
exigencies   occasioned by contemporary realities and the
need to improve performance to achieve best practices without any
prompting from external organs of the government.

“At the moment, the priority of the Office of the
Attorney-General of
the Federation and Minister of Justice is to see to the effective
execution of its statutory mandates of supervising all the
parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Justice in a way that
make them function in the best interest of the general public,
which constitutional responsibility  he is engaged by
President Muhammadu Buhari to discharge”.