[Mikky jaga]

Barrister Paul,

I can understand your disappointment that you were not the Attorney General. That explains your obvious castigation of a fellow colleague for doing what is obviously right. I believe you would prefer an EFCC that is left unchecked to trample on people's rights with impunity on the excuse of fighting corruption. The new AG has refused to tow such line and as such he should be commended.

Ikechiji has said the prisons and its conditions fall within the supervisory area of the minister of the interior, and that is the truth of the matter. If that minister feels there should be new laws to make the prison better, he can seek the assistance of the AG in formulating such new rules.

That a former inmate turned president could not do anything in his eight years of misrule should concern you more than an AG that is barely two months old in office. And FYI it is not the role of the AG to advice the President on which visitor to receive in his office.

In actual fact, the AG was not defending the corrupt politicians as you allege. He was only trying to bring the EFCC, ICPC, CCB to tow line of civility and rule of law. If Obasanjo had started the implementation of the prison reforms, it would have been easier for the new government to continue, but he did nothing thereby leaving the new AG no option but to study the document first before implementing what he did not initiate.

On the whole, your article drips of regret and unjustified anger against a man that is just doing his job.