Yar’Adua’s Absence: Akunyili Speaks For Herself – Aondoakaa
Written by By Ahuraka Yusuf Isah, Abuja
Saturday, 06 February 2010 00:52
The attorney general and minister of Justice, Chief Michael Kaasa Aondoakaa (SAN) yesterday said that the Minister of Information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili is 'on her own' regarding her widespread calls for Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to become acting president.

Wednesday, Prof. Akunyili presented a memo before the Executive Council of the Federation marshalling out reasons why Vice President Goodluck Jonathan should be asked to start executing the official and constitutional functions of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in an acting capacity until he returns from Saudi Arabia where he is currently receiving medical attention.

President Yar'Adua left the shores of Nigeria on November 23 last year to treat himself of a heart disease which was later diagnosed as pecicarditis.

Akunyili had in her memo to the ECF noted that some aspects of government had been in limbo, for instance the swearing-in of some permanent secretaries and what she referred to as a "threat to our hard earned democracy".

But the chief law officer of the federation, Aondoakaa, while responding to Akunyili's position on the Yar'Adua question, told newsmen in Abuja yesterday that Akunyili is airing her personal opinion, pointing out that every citizen is entitled to his own opinion on issues.

In another development, the Justice minister Friday morning held a meeting with lawyers in the ministry of Justice and promised that they would be elevated to be at par with their counterparts in other states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.

This is contained in a statement signed by his chief press secretary to the minister, Ambrose Momoh. The statement faulted the non-inclusion of federal law officers in the harmonised scheme, while those at the state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) level are benefiting.

According to the statement, the one-day industrial action slated for February 8, 2010 is to press home the demand for federal law officers to be treated on the same level with their counterparts in the states and the FCT.

In the document made available to our reporter in Abuja, the group served a notice of impending strike on the minister of Justice in his office on Friday, intimating him of their plight and the need to embark on the strike to draw the attention of the relevant authority.

The statement reads that the group told Aondoakaa that " While law officers in most states of the federation are benefiting from the Harmonisation Scheme, which was mooted way back in 1994 by the Body of Attorneys-general at its 38th meeting, the officers of the Federal Ministry of Justice are yet to do so"

Aondoakaa in his reaction to the proposed strike action, was said to have decried the seeming discrimination against or neglect of the federal law officers, stating that "the situation whereby the States and Federal Capital Territory law officers are benefiting from the scheme to the exclusion of their federal counterparts is unacceptable and constitutes an embarrassment.

"He assured the members of the association that the attention of the head of Service of the Federation had been drawn to the situation with a view to resolving the issue once and for all," the statement added.


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That man deserved to face firing squad. He is undoubtably the most corrupt AGF in the history of this nation.

what do you except from a man that fought for corrupt governors and officials, like Ibori to escape from the hands of the EFCC.
When goodluck finally takes offices as acting president, he should be the first to be fired.

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Thanks Management.

I'll be waiting by God's grace to see the kind of death that man will die but one thing am trusting is that it won't be after a brief illness/ death through sleep due to old age.

Well, he is speaking for himself, too.

Heard that serious looting has been going on since yar'dua left. Who knows how much must have gone down d drain.