Lawal, while he was the SGF, was blamed for plundering the assets of the Presidential Initiative on the North East (PINE) through front organizations. Be that as it may, he has reliably kept up his guiltlessness and denied the charges.
Be that as it may, the examination report submitted to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, by Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, found generally. Various sources at the Federal Ministry of Justice affirmed to THISDAY that Magu presented the answer to Malami a week ago.
The report likewise incorporates draft charges the EFCC considered proper for the ex-SGF to look in the occasion the government chooses to give him the chance to demonstrate his innocence in the official courtroom.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on October 30 a year ago acknowledged the proposals of the report of a board, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, which explored claims of debasement against Lawal and a previous Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke. Prior to at that point, the Presidency had suspended Lawal, who, when informed that he had been suspended, made the now acclaimed response, "who is the Presidency?"
The announcement issued by the Presidency declaring Lawal's expulsion from office had perused, "President Muhammadu Buhari has examined the report of the board headed by the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), which explored claims against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke.
"The president acknowledged the suggestion of the board to end the arrangement of Mr. Lawal and has named Boss Mustapha as the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
"The arrangement produces prompt results.
"President Buhari additionally endorsed the suggestion to end the arrangement of Mr. Oke, and has additionally endorsed the setting up of a three-part board too, in addition to other things, investigate the operational, specialized and regulatory structure of the Agency and make fitting suggestions."
As indicated by the EFCC report, between November 2015 and November 2017, PINE got about N16.9 billion. Of this, in any event, 11.6 billion was as far as anyone knows spent generally through contracts to fronts.
The counter defilement organization discovered that a large number of the agreements ruptured fair treatment.
It additionally found that a significant number of the contractual workers were either front of Lawal or required to pay kickbacks to organizations possessed by him.
The principal organization that was supposedly utilized for this trick was Rholavision.
EFCC coordinated up the ex-SGF's Bank Verification Number (BVN) to the organization record and discovered that he was the primary signatory to the organization account.
Over the two years, at any rate, N566 million (about 5% of the aggregate consumption of PINE) over the period went to the record of Rholavision alone.
Another organization was known as Bards Brothers.
The probable offenses brought up in the charges are rupture of trust, scheme and taking.
It took weight from the general population, through the media, to convince the president to consent to explore Lawal.
Under Nigerian laws, a charged stays honest until the point that his blame has been demonstrated past sensible uncertainty in an official courtroom.
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