PINE

Lawal said he had always wanted the EFCC to get involved in the case because it has the capacity to get to the truth.

The committee had written the suspended SGF on Wednesday, asking him to appear before its hearing on Thursday, but his aides reportedly refused to accept the letter.

“We went there but we couldn’t find them. So the option before us is that it is easier for the camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for us to find some of these names here,” said Shehu Sani.

The Senate on Thursday expressed anger and worry over the reaction of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, regarding the resolution of the upper legislative chamber that the SGF should be removed and prosecuted.

The Senate has called for the suspension and prosecution of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, for alleged abuse of office and complicity in the award of contracts by the Presidential Initiative for the North East, PINE

The Senate ad-hoc committee on the North East humanitarian crisis has uncovered seeming incidents of corruption in the activities of the Presidential Initiative for the North East, PINE.