I have nothing to hide, Malami tells Reps in probe of illegal $2.4b oil sale

Abubakar Malami, the minister of justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) has again, said he knows nothing alleged illegal sale of 48 million barrels of crude oil valued at $2.4 billion. Malami stated this when he appeared before the House of Representatives adhoc committee investigating the alleged loss of over $2.4 billion in revenue from the illegal sale of 48 million barrels of crude oil export in 2015 including all crude oil exports and sales from 2014 till date chaired by Hon. Mark Gbillah. Malami had at an earlier appearance before the House of Representatives adhoc committee investigating the alleged loss in 2015, including crude oil exports from 2014 till date a month ago described the allegation as baseless and unfounded. Also, reappearing before the committee with the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice/Solicitor-General of the Federation, Beatrice Jedy-Agba on Thursday, the minister said he still stands by his earlier submission on the matter. According to him, at no point in time was he ever a member of any formal committee, and not a single document was forwarded to him for his consideration, and capacity as the AGF or review for the purpose of establishing a case relating to $2.4 billion alleged revenue loss. Malami said, “No documents was made available to me relating to this, I’m talking about a document made available by the whistleblower or the one made available by the system. Even when I am invited by this committee, not a single document was made available to me for consideration. “In the absence of facts, in the absence of documents being presented for my consideration by the National Assembly, in the absence of documents being presented to me by the executive for consideration, in the absence of my participation in any subject matter of investigation, it’s not out of place for me to conclude that there’s no justifiable, reasonable ground basis for such consideration. “I think we can proceed on the basis of collaboration. And the basis for that is for the committee to make