Chairman of the Presidential Judicial Commission of Inquiry probing allegations of fraud at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Justice Isa Ayo Salami (retd.) has said he never regretted his appointment.
Justice Salami in a statement he personally signed said the report of him regretting over his appointment as chairman of the commission is false.
The Justice Salami commission is probing the activities of the suspended acting chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.
Salami said, ”There was no time anything near the unthinkable scenario painted in the false story occurred in any meeting between myself and the lawyers to Magu or any other person for that matter, since the judicial commission of inquiry began its sittings.”
”I have no cause to express any regret over my chairmanship of the commission, not to talk of betraying any form of emotion before anyone about it. I see my appointment to serve as the chairman of the commission of inquiry as an honour and call to service, thus, my decision to accept diligently and patriotically discharge this responsibility.
”I have never appointed any of the two lawyers or any person (s) to speak on my behalf as I can express myself without recourse to the lawyers of the persons we are probing. As an eminent jurist, who retired as the then President of the Court of Appeal, I have handled much more complex cases than the current one before the Commission.”
He said there is no doubt that the false reports were aimed at causing mischief and tarnishing his hard-earned reputation and integrity, explaining that he remain resolute and committed to the service of the nation and ready to champion the ideals of justices and fairness.
