escodotman:
Sagay will continue to always spew out rubbish and trash in order to justify his pay cheque to his pay masters in Aso villa while he continues to be a disgrace to his legal profession. It is only in Nigeria government will choose court judgements which favour them to obey and disregard others which do not favour them.

BabaO2:
What rubbish here? open your mind, read and understand. What did senate take to court? To affirm that they have right to reject Magu? Does the president have right to continue with Magu as acting Chairman? etc., it is a flexible case that will take forever...

dancewith:
So why bother asking sentate to confirm anyone when we know this is mere ceremony?

This precedent is dangerous in that future president can rightly ignore the Senate in confirming required appointments and use this

If the president actually wanted this man confirmed, why did it allow an agency under its control to forward such an adverse report against its appointee? Were the Senate expected to ignore that?? If they had done the future would have hindsighted this as a sign of collusion

Claiming the Senate has pecunial interest in not confirming this appointee is like using sentiments and blackmail in trying to get approval from a shoddy work done. If this man drops dead today would the executive be unable to continue its anti corruption fight?

We must not only do the right things but be seen to do so by all. This farcical situation of defending the indefensible must stop

Okoroawusa:

Name one person in ur family as educated as sagay

BabaO2:
What rubbish here? open your mind, read and understand. What did senate take to court? To affirm that they have right to reject Magu? Does the president have right to continue with Magu as acting Chairman? etc., it is a flexible case that will take forever...

AnanseK:


You and your masters are desperate to reverse the progress made in fighting corruption. Magu will stay as acting chairman and fight you the icons of corruption in the senate. We are not returning to the times when stealing was not corruption.

dheilaw1:
thank you jare. the level of illiteracy in this country is still very high. the court has given its judgement that it is withing the constitutional power of the Senate to either confirm or reject Magu. we should also ask what the laws says about Magu remaining as the acting chairman of efcc as long as the president wants. or does the Senate have the power to remove him as acting chairman. many people will only comment here becos they feel they should comment without considering how unreasonable their comments are

kirajustice:
@POLITICSNGR

Senior Lawyers, Itse Sagay and Festus Keyamo have weighed in on a recent court judgment regarding Ibrahim Magu's status as the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC).

On Thursday, a federal high court in Abuja presided over by Justice T. Tsoho ruled that the Nigerian Senate acted in accordance with the law when it screened and rejected Ibrahim Magu's nomination as chairman of the EFCC.

Reacting to the development, Keyamo said; “The fact that the law has not circumscribed the amount of time or the time period that someone can act as the head of an agency, it would mean therefore that I see no legal problem at all in Ibrahim Magu continuing to act as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, there is no legal impediment at all.”

Sagay, who is also the chairman of PACAC, said; "I don’t expect that the judgment will have an effect on Ibrahim Magu’s status as Acting EFCC Chairman. I don’t expect that there’s anything externally that is going to affect Magu’s position.

"I don’t know whether the judge considered Section 171 of the Constitution which even allows the President to appoint heads of agencies like Magu’s agency without any reference to the Senate. That is already there, so I don’t know what was brought to the court’s attention. When we see the full judgment we will be able to express our opinion,".

https://politicsngr.com/court-judgement-wont-affect-magu-sagay-keyamo/

luvinhubby:
About time Sagay and Keyamo are picked up for contempt of court.

escodotman:
Young man, dont try to twist the law here, understand? Go and study the EFCC act before coming here to comment. It's clearly stated there that the chairmanship position of the Commission will be subject to the APPROVAL of the Senate. So that no president will instal his younger brother or nephew or member of his party as the EFCC chairman. Any presidential nominee rejected by the upper chamber, TWICE!!!, has no right to continue in his position again. Unless this is a lawless country! Is Magu the only man out of over 100million people capable of heading the EFCC??

deomelllo:




I that from your own personal constitution or just your own opinion because no law says the president can not renominate the same candidate.

Olumaeme:


Oga Senate is not against Magu, DSS indicted him, EFCC and DSS are under the presidency.. Why not blame the presidency for not handling its affairs well.

Senate is acting on a report, it's not about doing something well or not, it's about obeying the law of the land..

Infact, you can do something legal on an illegal foundation...

Let's even come to this Magu, what exactly is he doing well? How many top politicians has he jailed? EFCC has even lost more cases under his leadership than anytime before, all they do is bark all around the place and get defeated in the court...

Magu’s rejection not based on DSS report — Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki has said the Senate did not reject the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, because of a damning report issued by the Department of State Services which questioned Magu’s integrity.


The Senate President was reacting to a claim by a former Senate Majority Leader, Ali Ndume, who said last week that it was hypocritical of the Senate to allow Saraki to continue in office because he was in court to defend corruption allegations.

Ndume had argued that the Senate should not have rejected Magu based on unproven allegations.

Saraki said, “You are jumping into conclusion that he (Magu) was rejected because of the accusation. I don’t think there was anywhere we said he was rejected based on accusations.

“We have nominees that come all the time with different issues. Two weeks ago, we screened the Chief Justice of Nigeria and he scaled through

http://punchng.com/magus-rejection-not-based-on-dss-report-saraki/

escodotman:
It is not my own personal constitution but the constitution of Nigeria. You can only nominate the same candidtate twice. Ask any lawyer if you have one there with you.

Namt:



Now, the Senate should never be allowed to approve heads of agencies like EFCC especially considering the fact that many members of the Senate are under investigation by the same EFCC/Magu, even the Senate president himself.

escodotman:
Not everyone came from a lowly family like you if you are thinking of comparing your family to other peoples'. I can see your family is filled with low lifes and ''no future ambition''s (NFAs) and your a product of your pig father!

Okoroawusa:

Na for only Nairaland u get power

deomelllo:



If it is not your own personal constitution, then show us the part in the Nigerian constitution that says you can only nominate once or twice.

Femistico:
How I wish 2019 can come faster. This Sagna or sagay whatever he's called need to sit his ass down and stop spewing thrash