BREAKING: game over For ‘The Grass Cutter’, David Lawal, As Buhari Announces the Appointment of New Acting SGF

Emerging report indicates that President Muhammadu Buhari, has officially appointed a New Secretary General of the Federation, SGF, hours after Babachir Lawal was ousted, over grass cutting corruption allegations.

According to the announcement, the Permanent Secretary General Services Office, GSO, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, OSGF, Muhammed Bukar, has taken over as the Acting SGF, Post-Nigeria reports.

This follows Wednesday’s suspension of Babachir by Buhari, over allegations of corruption in contract awards, at the Presidential Initiative on the North-East, PINE.

“Mr Bukar has taken over as the Acting SGF. He is the most senior of the six Permanent Secretaries in the office, OSGF…” one of the officials said.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on the mounting humanitarian crisis in the North-East, Senator Shehu Sani, has described the suspension of Lawal as a welcome development.

Sani in a statement, said the suspension was commendable, and that Buhari has taken the Senate Commitee report and recommendations, seriously.

“The sword of truth is not just cast and sharpened for the neck of foes, but also for those of friends. Moral gallows is not just meant for a belligerent foe, but for a perfidious friend.

“Courage is dispensing justice; greater courage is dispensing justice against our emotions and temptation towards saving a friend. It’s easier to annihilate an adversary for a heap wrong, than reprimand a friend for a mountain of wrong, “he said.

Sani, who chairs the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, added that: “It’s commendable for the President to heed the call to fumigate the throne of lice and bugs, with the same ability he goes after rodents afar.

“The Senate and the Committee have nothing personal against the SGF, or any person affected, but we simply did our job in conformity with our constitutional responsibilities, and the moral calling of our conscience.

“We cannot jubilate, because a mighty mortal is caught in the trap of his fate, we are neither saints nor Angels, but we have a duty to raise a card, or blow the whistle.”

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