The Director General of the
Department of State Services, DSS, Lawan Daura, has accused the Acting chairman
of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, of running
the anti-graft agency based on gossips and political interference from certain
quarters and marabouts.
Daura said this before the Senate
ad-hoc committee, adding that the method, which he described as ‘brawn instead
of brain’, deployed by EFCC under Magu, is a Gestapo style that belongs to
dictatorial regimes.
He said: “The method (brawn
instead of brain) deployed by the current EFCC under Magu is a Gestapo style
that belongs to dictatorial regime.
“The Acting Chairman runs the
Agency based on public rumours, manoeuvres, gossips, political interference
from certain quarters and marabouts.”
Daura also accused Magu of
vendetta mission against the DSS as a result of the indictment of his close
friend, retired Air Commodore Mohammed Umar, who was involved in extorting
money from suspects under investigation by the Presidential Committee
Investigating Defence Procurement between 2014 and 2015.
He said although the EFCC has the
power to investigate financial crimes, but investigation of the finances of the
DSS was an exception in this case and can only be waived with the approval of
the President.
The report of the ad-hoc
committee, sighted by The Eagle Online, said: “The extant law regulating the
Service prohibits it from the commission’s kind of investigation without a
presidential order.
“It was suggested to him to call
EFCC Board meeting to thrash it out or to secure such presidential order.
“The service also advised
appropriate authorities to set up a Presidential Committee in the manner that
the Tower/NIA money was investigated.”
In the report, Magu was indicted
on several grounds.
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