President Buhari sacks Babachir Lawal as SGF, replaces him with Boss Mustapha

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally sacked
Babachir Lawal, as Secretary to the Government
of the Federation (SGF).
He has been replaced by Boss Mohammed.
This was contained in a statement sent to
Yawadeyonline, by Buhari’s Special Assistant on
Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.
The statement reads, “President Muhammadu
Buhari has studied the report of the panel
headed by the Vice President, Prof Yemi
Osinbajo, SAN, which investigated allegations
against the suspended Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir
David Lawal, and the Director General, National
Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayo Oke.
“The President accepted the recommendation of
the panel to terminate the appointment of Mr
Lawal, and has appointed Mr Boss Mustapha as
the new Secretary to the Government of the
Federation. The appointment takes immediate
effect.
“President Buhari also approved the
recommendation to terminate the appointment
of Ambassador Oke, and has further approved
the setting up of a three-member panel to,
among other things, look into the operational,
technical and administrative structure of the
Agency and make appropriate
recommendations.”

Others members of the investigation panel were:
the National Security Adviser, General Babagana
Monguno (rtd) and the Attorney-General of the
Federation, Abubakar Malami.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari
suspended Babachir and Oke on April 19.
The panel investigated allegations of violations
of law and due process made against Lawal in
the award of contracts under the Presidential
Initiative on the North East (PINE), while it
probed Oke on the discovery of huge cash by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, in a residential apartment at Osborne
Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, for which NIA laid claim.
A Senate Committee on Humanitarian Crisis in
the North-East, which had earlier found the
suspended former SGF culpable of alleged
complicity in a N200million grass-cutting
contract to clear “invasive plant species” in
Yobe State, had demanded his resignation and
prosecution.