The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu, has insisted
that Coronavirus was caused by corruption.
The killer diseases
has hit 40 countries and killed nearly 3,000 people since it broke out
mid-December 2019 in Wuhan, China.
Magu, who pluralized
the disease by calling it ‘Coronaviruses’, insisted that it “was created by a
corrupt mind”.
“Somebody sat down
in the laboratory and created it to infect and destroy other people”, he said
at the commission’s office in Abuja.
His comments came a
few days after the EFCC attacked the media for publishing what Magu said in a
televised broadcast.
EFCC spokesman, Tony
Orilade, had on Sunday, accused the Nigerian media of twisting the comment Magu
made at the Passing Out Parade of its Detective Inspector Course 5 cadets.
The event was held
at the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, in Kaduna on February 18, 2020.
Magu, in his speech,
clearly stated: “I strongly believe, Your Excellency, that even coronavirus is
caused by corruption”.
Footage of the
comment which has been circulating on the internet earned Magu harsh
criticisms.
But EFCC claimed
that a section of the traditional and the new media was “obsessed with a
campaign to impugn and irritate Magu”.
“We have restrained
ourselves from joining issues in a certain section of the media in the light of
what Magu said on coronavirus, but are now constrained to issue this
clarification”, he said.
Now that Magu has
reaffirmed his statement, Nigerians would expect to see the EFCC apologize to
the media it wrongly accused or admit that the commission boss made the
statement.
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