FG won’t accept plea bargain – Malami

FG won't accept plea bargain – Malami

Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN
The federal government won't compromise its fight against terrorism and financial crimes, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN has said.
Malami said this in Abuja when BringBackOurGirls campaign movement visited him.
"I cannot imagine someone been responsible for monumental deaths of our citizens and then going scot-free arising from plea-bargain as a policy. It has never been the policy of the government to make compromises on terrorism and financial crimes. It will never be tolerated by the office of the AGF," he said.
He said the abduction of the school girls is "tormenting and psychologically traumatizing" for the nation.
"It is tragic for a nation to have a budget meant for arms procurement for the protection of lives and property of the citizens, and end up not having the arms but compromising the process of making adequate provisions for the protection of lives of its citizens," he said.
"The government of President Muhammadu Buhari has demonstrated sufficient skill and commitment to the protection of lives and property within the shortest practicable time of coming into existence, it has recorded tremendous success including confronting Sambisa forest head-on with the hope of rescuing the Chibok girls," the minister said.
Earlier, the group's co-convener and former minister of education, Oby Ezekwesili, told the minister that the inefficient governance of the immediate past government was largely responsible for the tragedy of the Chibok girls.
She recalled that since the advocacy for the Chibok girls began in April 2014, no concrete step was taken by the ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's administration to secure the safe return of the girls.
"In the movement, we over time realised that it is the failure of governance that resulted in the abduction of the Chibok girls and that corruption was the key obstacle to the rescue of the girls," she said.

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