The Arewa Youth
Consultative Forum, AYCF, on Wednesday said the suspension of Ibrahim Magu as
acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was long
overdue.
Speaking with Dailypost, President-General of AYCF, Yerima Shettima said Magu’s indictment by a
federal government agency without proper investigation until now was an
indication that the suspension of the EFCC boss was long overdue.
According to
Shettima: “Note that Magu was indicted by an agency under this same government,
so for me, his suspension was long overdue because nobody is perfect.
“So as long as there
is that indictment, Nigerians doubt his Integrity.
“We were expecting
that when the issue came up, rather than looking at the nitty-gritty of the
issue people turned it into mere politics.
”You can’t put
somebody who has been indicted in power without properly going through to know
how true that indictment when it’s coming from the same agency under the
federal government and you downplay it and allow the man to continue having his
show here and there, it’s not right, so for me it is long overdue.”
The AYCF
President-General also pointed out some criteria the federal government should
consider when picking the next chairman of the EFCC.
Shettima advised the
federal government to look at the Integrity of the individual and also consider
officers from the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIGs, to fill
the position of EFCC chairman.
On what President
Muhammadu Buhari should consider in picking next EFCC Chairman, Shettima said:
“Integrity must be brought to bear, also the commission itself must be
strengthened whatever it would take the government, it should strengthen the
commission because it’s the last hope we have right now”.
“Nobody should be
seen to be above the law, everybody should be brought to the fore when there is
an indictment.
“Also the idea of
considering only Assistant Commissioners is not good enough, the government
should go beyond that.
“Even at the state
level, an Assistant Commissioner can’t summon a governor, we need to start
looking beyond this. There are a lot of Assistant Inspector Generals, AIGs.”
Magu was on Monday
whisked away by a combined team of Department of State Services (DSS)
operatives and Police officers to the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Magu was taken
before a Presidential Panel reviewing activities of the anti-graft agency for
questioning.
But, EFCC’s Head of
Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, claimed that Magu was only invited by the
panel sitting at the Presidential Villa and was not arrested.
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